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The presence of harmful stick-slip oscillations in oil well drillstrings has attracted the attention of the control community in recent years. The control law named D-OSKIL mechanism which uses the weight on the bit (WoB) force as an additional control variable to extinguish limit cycles has been investigated. This paper reports experimental implementation of such a mechanism, in a laboratory testbed...