How do you track router bits?

[Burt Alcantara]

I don't use my router very much but when I do, I use it alot. I don't have many bits but I have to keep them in the original container otherwise I have no idea what it is.

All of the plans for storing router bits are holes to stick the bits into. For me, this presents a problem. How do I know one from the other. Presently, I only have about 5 bits. Eventually, I will buy more as I find the router to be a wonderful tool.

Since I don't have any storage solution, they sit on a shelf always in the way of something. The markings on the bit are part numbers. The CMT bits have length and diameter so sticking these in a drawer is as useful as hiding them under the bed.

[Pete Brown]

I have a box full of holes :)

I can usually tell one from another just by looking at them. Except for one inexpensive Woodcraft set, I only buy them when I know I have a project coming up that needs a particular bit.

Pete

[Dan Gill]

You could label the holes. Or you could glue a small cut-off piece of wood profiled or cut or routed with each bit nex to its hole. Or consider drilling the hole IN the cut-off piece. Me, I just stick them in holes without labels.

[Scott Loven]

I keep all of mine in a fishing tacle box with other router junk in the botom.
Scott

[Dave Falkenstein]

I keep my router bits in a muti-drawer cabinet - the kind you can buy at any home store, with small drawers and plastic dividers. The cabinet hangs on the end of my router table. The drawers are labeled. I have several dozen bits and can locate the one I need in seconds.

[Mike Cutler]

I keep all of mine in a fishing tacle box with other router junk in the botom.
Scott

Bingo! ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)

[David Cramer]

Bingo Squared!!! At least for now anyways. One day, a shallow wall storage display type of cabinet will be built. Until then......................

Dave

[Jim Young]

I have my bits in a router table. They have thire special location, that is the way I know what the bit is. For the most part my projects get accent treatment based on the bits I have on hand, so the exact profile ID isn't required.

http://www.simoli.net/images/Woodworking/Shop/Shop%20Tools/6rtbits.JPG

More pics here (http://www.simoli.net/pages%20woodworking/Shop%20pages/shop.htm).

[Bruce Wrenn]

MLCS will sell you the wooden box that their bit set (66 piece, I think) comes in for less than $30. It is over in the back of the catalogue.