Bench Dog 40-001 ProTop Contractor Benchtop Router Table
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Bench Dog 40-001 ProTop Contractor Benchtop Router Table
Customer Review: Top quality
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a top quality piece of equipment. Solid, well-made. Putting it together was quite a feat -- took me two nights on the living room floor. But it was worth it. I bought a switch to mount on the outside, making it even more convenient. I'm very happy.Customer Review: Good Equipment
Summary: 5 Stars
Shipped quickly, easy to assemble, and works fine. Glad I bought it.Customer Review: Dog Takes A Bite Out of Work
Summary: 4 Stars
I built router table and purchased three others and this table is by far the best one yet. The instructions for assembly were clear, the bench set up quickly and within a couple of hours there was sawdust. The four star review is for two minor reasons: although the factory gave me extra parts, I was shy one washer for the rear fence assembly, but performance is not affected. The second reason is while my shop vacum picks up everything, the inside of the box gets filled with sawdust quickly, so have anything in there absent. While working the bench is steady, does not chatter, and solid. I find this table to be worth it. I am not a patient man, but Amazon won my admiration with the speed of delivery.Customer Review: Save money and time
Summary: 5 Stars
For the price, it can't be beat. If you wanted to make a table of the same quality from off-the-shelf parts and birch-ply lumber, you'd spend more than $200. And you'd have to spend some time duplicating the simplicity and rigidity of its one-piece extruded aluminum fence. After shopping around for all the parts, I decided to save time and money buying it all in one neat package.
Assembly is clear and straightforward. The miter track has an integrated T-track for mounting featherboards - as does the top of the fence. Jointing setup (2 preset depths) uses a couple of aluminum bars that slide behind the outfeed fence.
The router plate accomodates many of the most common brands (no Festool, though) but does not use inserts. Just a hole in the middle of the plate. There is also no accomodation for a pin for freehand routing.
I'd bet that more than 90% of ordinary routing duties can be handled by this setup.
Customer Review: What a great unit!! My VERY large Crafstman router fit perfectly!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this thing. No complaints, AND it's price is VERY competitive. I initially set it up with a large Craftsman 3 1/4 HP router. I had no isses fitting it in the cabinet (I bought mine in Feb. 2004, and I believe they had increased the interior height by that point...don't quote me on that). I've used it for the standard edging applications and also for edge jointing. It actually works quite well for edge jointing!!! It takes some practice setting it up, but I used Digital Calipers to measure variances, and then move the in or out-feed fence accordingly. Once you get a method, it's only a 5 minute set-up. Not having a long bed makes jointing trickier, but hey, it's a router table. It is no jointer, but for the time being it is allowing me to get by without a jointer (that'll be my next purchase).
I've just bought a Hitachi M12V, so can't wait to mount that in there!!