Twenty-Three Bits in a MINI-systainer

Router bits are the worst thing in a shop to store loosely. They are small, they roll, and the part you must not knock against anything is the part that does the cutting. Put twenty-three of them in a drawer and you have twenty-three carbide edges finding each other.

Shaper’s answer is the Ultimate Bit Kit v23: twenty-three bits selected and tested for Origin, lying on their sides in die-cut foam in a MINI-systainer that Shaper has had customized in its own black-and-light-grey livery, with SHAPER molded into the lid.

Three engraving bits, nine flat, four O-flute, a roughing bit, and six specialty profiles — dovetail, T-slot, fingerpull, coving, tapered ball and ball nose. Shaper’s own copy calls it a limited run, available while supplies last, and the “v23” is both the version and the count.

The lid is the catalogue

The best part of this fitout is not the foam, it is the board inside the lid. Every bit is drawn to shape with its size beside it — ¼ x 1" flat, 8 x 35mm roughing, 90° x ⅛" engraving — so the empty slot in front of you tells you exactly what is missing and what to order. A bit kit without that diagram is a guessing game the first time you lend one out.

Behind it, an Origin was running with its tape-tracking camera live. The bits go in the router; the case goes in the stack.

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