KREGPRS2100 Bench Top Router Table - Full Size Portable Router Table - Workshop Router Table - Workbench Accessory

First off; if you haven't used any Kreg products and worked with the Customer Service they are absolutely top drawer! They understand the value of not buying the cheapest product available and providing excellent CS experience to supplement pretty good values in their product.Now for the router table: great addition to my workshop. I love how I can move it into play and out of play very easily. Well made and designed, and provides a lot of features like JOINTING. A jointer can cost easily as much as this table.As with most Kreg products, assembly is not very simple. It's well engineered, but also designed to be low cost shipping and low-cost assembly from a Kreg perspective. They likely have the product shipped in from China to their specifications, and turn and ship it directly to you with some instructions manuals added; which by the way, they are excellent.This table has become quickly one of my most important tools, and it's certainly not the most expensive one.

I've been considering this tool for quite some time. Won't be often used so should last forever. The assembly is very simple and straightforward, albeit time consuming. If needed, the instructions are well done and helpful. I have a several years old, but new, Jessem router lift that fit with some minor modifications to the lift, rather than the table. I feel that the lift plate could benefit from more under table leveling plates vs. just on the 4 corners. With the lift this thing seems like the best choice for the job site. I'll start with a PC 890 and see how it does with the occasional larger bits, if it struggles I'll use the heavy beast. If they made one with the standard top size I would have bought it but as with most things, there are trade offs.

The assembly is VERY tedious. I'm old and stiff so I'm sure it took me longer than it will for most folks, but still, SIX HOURS seems excessive.Very poor design on the miter track screws which should have been self-starting like the ones for attaching the levelers to the underside of the table. The table top is MDF and does not seem to be of the best quality. The screws all cause lots of MDF material to be pulled out.One of the non-self-starting miter track screws was so hard to get started that only the last 1/3 or so threaded itself and it then pushed through the layer of black paint on the underside of the table and popped out some MDF around the screw.The leveler inserts are part of the tedium of construction and adjustment but well worth the effort since they really work well and give accurate leveling and lockdown once your satisfied that you've got it all right.The EXTRAORDINARILY (and unnecessarily) complicated device that allows for the fence to both be locked down and to be removed from the table is the worst design aspect of the whole thing. It's hard to see how they could have made it more complicated and you have to get it JUST right on the lockdown won't work.The steel legs are solid and attach fairly easily to the underside of the table but you'll need a hex socket wrench to attach the support braces between the legs. They don't provide that bit. They DO provide a Robertson drive hex bit for the self-starting screws and it is not shown on the parts list, so confused me until I saw what it fit. They do provide needed Allen wrenches.And last but not least, unless you are well over 6 feet tall, or have a workbench designed for midgets, the top of the router table is going to be unpleasantly high once you put it on your workbench. I've decided that I just can't work for long with it the way it is so I'm going to build a cabinet for it, which defeats the whole purpose of having bought a bench-top unit that could be stored under the workbench to save floor footprint. Very disappointing, but if I had looked more carefully at the measurements, I would have realized in advance that this would be a problem, so my bad.

If you are a woodworker in a small shop, you will love this bench top router table. I have been looking for a bench top router table that would allow me to use my Porter Cable 7518 3.5 HP router.My table was made on 11/20 and my instruction manual is version 5, printed on 05/2018. The instructions were spot on. It takes a couple of hours to build because you have to assemble everything and if you follow the instructions you will be successful.The table came with all the parts thankfully and if you are missing anything you will be stuck. I know some reviewers were missing parts.This table is very high quality and as a 50 year woodworker, I am happy with my purchase and so will you.The cam lock fence hold down system is definitely a Rube Goldberg but once you figure it out it works well. Assemble all the cam lock parts on the fence first and then place it on the table, then adjust the tension.Thank you