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trays

Started on the next drawer of stuff. The spoon bits I have are about the toughest to make fit, so I started with them. Rather than using a gouge to carve a holder for them, I used auger bits to drill through two pieces of pine simultaneously, with them clamped in my face vise so the lead screw wouldn't push them apart.

Drilling through a paired set of boards, clamped in the face vise

Then with four holes drilled (for eight bits), I cut them apart on the bandsaw. Woohoo! They'll fit in a single layer in a small drawer!

After drilling the holes and cutting apart the pieces, they are placed in the bottom of the drawer to make sure they'll fit

So I measured how much height I needed and cut off the drawer.

Measuring the height I needed in the drawer

And glued and clamped a bottom to the piece that didn't have a bottom any more.

clamping a new bottom to the former top of the drawer-box

For the other half of the drawer, I carved trays for my countersink bits,

Carved tray for countersink bits, including the bits

Plug cutters,

Carved tray for the plug-cutter bits

And I'll fill the rest of the drawer with spare twist bits and the carbide-tipped spade bits I use for drilling through saw plates.

Drawer with countersink, plug-cutters and spare bits somewhat organized

I think I can take another ¼-⅜ inch off the drawer with the spoon bits tomorrow in order to make room for a pair of runners, so that's going to be the first thing for tomorrow, I think. Almost out of bits to find a home for, finally!

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One more drawer mostly done today. These are both carved into a piece of ¾ inch pine.

First the batwing bits, because I won't use them very often. They're nice for making a clean hole it they're in good shape, but mine aren't yet, and they haven't been a priority to sharpen up yet.

Tray holding an assortment of bat-wing spade bits

Recesses for the larger bits, pieces of bamboo skewers to hold the smaller bits, and a couple ipe knobs I turned from a ¾ inch diameter stick I had laying around so I can lift the set out of the bottom of the drawer.

Next is a tray for my forstner bits. Again, carved using three different gouges.

tray for forstner bits, with pencilled numbers indicating the sizes of the bits, in sixteenths of an inch

tray with forstner bits in place

Then I stuck a couple pieces of pine on the ends of that board so it can sit over the batwing bits in the same drawer. I may need to add a handle or I may not. Trying to decide if I'm going to make another tray to hold my plug cutters in this drawer too, but I got hungry for lunch and called it a day in the shop.

Drawer box with tray of batwing bits in the bottom

Tray of forstner bits, with oversized edge pieces to hold it above the lower tray

Once the glue has had a chance to dry, I'll cut off the top and bottom of the sides to get the tray of forstner bits fitting perfectly.

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