After creating a place to put my newly acquired router bits, I have some left over parts:
I have two of these cases; one housed a three piece straight bit set and the other housed a three piece flush-trim bit set. They are nice cases, with some intesting parts inside:
Those are sliding dovetail “joints” to hold things in place inside each case. I don’t imagine that there is a shop jig of any sort that I could fashion, but these days – who knows? I know there’s got to be something interesting I can make out of these, but it hasn’t hit me just yet. I’m sure Bre Pettis or Kip Kay could think of ten this off the top of their heads, but I think I’m going to have to head over to MAKE Magazine to fill through back issues. Maybe Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories will have some ideas…
If you ripped the cases down, you could wall mount the actual router bit holders as a ready-use area for your bits – either storing your most commonly used bits, and/or somewhere to put the router bits as you are changing them in the table so they don’t roll somewhere damaging (such as the concrete floor) (Ripping down meaning cut away everything except the actual bit holders)
That would certainly work. Cutting each of the right-hand sides in half would doble the storage. In this configuration, the upper holder was wasted, unless I was storing mutiple, tiny straight bits.