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This is a router bit storage box that I designed as a prize for Customer Appreciation Days at our Milwaukee Rockler Store. There will be a foam insert installed to hold the bits, Rockler item number 42287.
The dovetail idea was adapted from a series of 50 cnc wood joints posted on-line:
http://www.flexiblestream.org/Digital-W ... ts-001.php
dcp02441.jpg
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Nice box. You might add in a simple board with evenly arrayed .26" and .51" holes pocketed into it to work as the bit holding part.

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4DThinker wrote:Nice box. You might add in a simple board with evenly arrayed .26" and .51" holes pocketed into it to work as the bit holding part.
I must have been editing my post at the same time you were offering your suggestion...
"There will be a foam insert installed to hold the bits, Rockler item number 42287."
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I guess great minds think alike, Bob. :)

I'm so bored today I spent a few minutes drawing up my own bit holder CRV file. Same size as the one Rockler sells. Slightly different hole pattern. Rendered it in granite as that looked the most like black foam. Feel free to use as you wish, everyone.
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Good lookin' box.
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Thank you.
One more thought to add if you plan on making these joints, specify climb cuts. Conventional cutting is too agressive on the ends of the pins and tails.
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Bob,

very nice. Did you have to go to plan "B"? Excellant job!

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Buc wrote:Bob,

very nice. Did you have to go to plan "B"? Excellant job!

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Thanks.
Things are looking up! I didn't have to go with plan "C".
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Bob wrote:This is a router bit storage box that I designed as a prize for Customer Appreciation Days at our Milwaukee Rockler Store. There will be a foam insert installed to hold the bits, Rockler item number 42287.
The dovetail idea was adapted from a series of 50 cnc wood joints posted on-line:
http://www.flexiblestream.org/Digital-W ... ts-001.php
dcp02441.jpg
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Hi Bob,

Those dovetails are a very cleaver approach. You can use the same tool throughout.

Ed

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