Benchtop Woodworking Router Table (Router Not Included)

Really sturdy table for your router. There are lots of parts to assemble though. Take your time and keep the items organized to be sure you do it correctly. The mounting of the router itself requires you to take it apart some. Read all instructions first then decide how you want to proceed. When it is done it works great for small projects.

This table is listed as universal however it doesn’t fit every router. We have a dewalt router and my husband followed all the mounting directions. The router on his 2nd attempt to use fell out of the table while running and he almost cut a finger off. Very dangerous.

This is a decent quality router table - obviously designed for the weekend DIYer, not professional use. The legs hold the router table steady enough (assuming that you have properly secured them to a sturdy work bench or other mounting surface). The rigid central cast aluminum router table provides a level surface with an easily adjustable and stable back fence. There are dual adjustable vertical feather boards on either end of the fence to hold your work piece down against the table, plus another adjustable feather board to hold your work piece steady against the back fence. The clear guard over the router bit area flips up - and stays up until you want it to come back down - for checking your router bit set up. And there is a dust port at the rear of the fence where a vacuum hose should be attached to suck air from around the router bit and the open space beneath the guard so that the work space is kept clean of all the chips and dust produced by the router as you work. A total of 5 variously sized inserts to match the diameter of your bit to keep the open space around your router bit to as small a size as possible to help support the work piece and prevent dust and chips from falling down onto the router. And there is an easily accessible power switch mounted just beneath the table top along the front edge of the table - the router plugs into the controller unit and then it connects to the wall power source and can conveniently turn the router on or off as desired.The table extensions that attach to the central table help support longer work pieces. However they are just stamped steel (not cast aluminum like the central table). They can be adjusted while being installed along with the legs so that they are relatively flush with the central table. But if you are using the miter gauge to push the work piece through, its machined slot on the central table is only a loose fitting depression on the table extensions, so there are just a very few inches of controlled travel.The weakest feature of this router table is the router mounting mechanism. Instead of bolting the router housing directly to the cast aluminum table top, the designers have chosen to just have four arms that extend onto the router foot plate and clamp it to the bottom of the table. I'll have to see if I can't come up with a more secure method before I actually use this table top router table. At least to me, their clamping method just doesn't seem foolproof enough to rigidly hold a router bit spinning at 20,000 RPM when I start pushing wood into it.

Works really well. I haven’t used it too much yet, but it really is handy to have. My router fit well and it’s helped me finish a few jobs already