2026-08-29
Channel: Rasr Built (238 subscribers)
Most of today's candidates are shop-tour B-roll, hashtag-spam shorts, or vague "precision machining in action" reels with no teaching content. This one stands out because it tackles a real, practical shop problem — the perennial mess of loose router bits rolling around a drawer — and solves it with the very tool the bits belong to.
Rasr Built uses his CNC to design and cut a custom router bit organizer, which is a nice little meta-project: the CNC produces the storage system for its own consumables. Expect to see the design workflow (likely CAD/CAM in something like Vectric or Fusion), toolpath choices for hole pockets sized to specific shank diameters (1/4" vs 1/2"), and material selection considerations for a shop fixture that has to hold bits securely without slop.
Small-channel shop projects like this tend to show the actual gotchas — measuring bit shank tolerances, deciding hole depth so labels stay visible, and organizing by profile family — that polished channels edit out. It's the kind of build a viewer can directly steal for their own shop by the weekend.
