A drill is provided with a flank at a leading end portion of a body. An oil hole is provided at the flank, having a fan-shaped cross-section. The fan-shaped cross-section is formed by being surrounded by a front-side inner wall surface, a rear-side inner wall surface, an outer peripheral-side inner wall surface, and an inner peripheral-side inner wall surface. Compared to a round hole, a discharge performance of cutting fluid of the oil hole is high. The rear-side inner wall surface curves in a circular arc shape toward the front in a rotation direction. Thus, the drill can secure a distance between a ridge section of the flank and the rear-side inner wall surface to be wide, can suppress stress acting on a section between the ridge section of the flank and the oil hole, and can thus increase a discharge amount of the cutting fluid and also secure a tool rigidity.

A ridgeline between the thinning face and the flank face includes a first thinning portion contiguous to the outer cutting edge, and a second thinning portion contiguous to the first thinning portion. When viewed in a direction along the central axis, the first thinning portion is linear and the second thinning portion is curved. When viewed in the direction along the central axis, the first thinning portion, and a boundary between the first thinning portion and the second thinning portion are located rearward in a rotational direction relative to a first straight line, and are located forward in the rotational direction relative to a second straight line, the first straight line being a straight line passing through the central axis and parallel to the first thinning portion, and the second straight line being a straight line perpendicular to the first straight line.

A cutting head rotatable about a first axis, comprising an intermediate portion and a tip portion. The intermediate portion has a plurality of leading edges defining a cutting diameter, and the tip portion has an axially forwardmost tip point and a plurality of front surfaces with outer and inner cutting edges. An outer rake surface adjacent to each outer cutting edge has a positive outer rake angle, and an inner rake surface adjacent to each inner cutting edge has a negative inner rake angle. Each outer rake surface is disposed on a head flute intersecting one of the leading edges, and each inner rake surface is disposed on a gash intersecting one of the head flutes. Each gash extends to a gash path end point located a first distance axially rearward of the tip point, and the first distance is greater than thirty percent of the cutting diameter.

A flat drill (1) with a shank (6) and a cutting part (8) with front-side main cutting edges (16), which each extend in a plane transversely to the drill axis (3) from a cutting edge corner (22) into the drill center. The flat drill (1) has exactly three main cutting edges (16), which converge at the drill axis (3).

A drill has a helical flute surface, a flank face, and a thinning face. A ridgeline between the thinning face and the flank face constitutes a thinning cutting edge. The thinning cutting edge has a curved thinning cutting edge portion and a straight thinning cutting edge portion. The curved thinning cutting edge portion protrudes forward in the rotation direction. The straight thinning cutting edge portion is contiguous to the curved thinning cutting edge portion. The curved thinning cutting edge portion has a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion is a boundary between the curved thinning cutting edge portion and the straight thinning cutting edge portion.

The present invention provides a tool for drilling, the tool comprising two or more cutting edges and a web thinning, in which a thinning heel surface facing backward in a rotating direction of the tool is formed by a convex surface, and in which a thinning angle gradually becomes smaller from a leading end of the tool toward a base end thereof. A thinning rake surface of the web thinning may be shaped straight so as to extend from an area around a center of the tool and in a radial direction or a parallel direction thereto in a tool front view. A thinning rake surface may be shaped in a helix in an opposite direction to the rotating direction of the tool so as to extend from an area around a center of the tool and in a radial direction in a tool front view.