On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:56:06 +0100, A.Lee wrote:

With the amount of woodwork I have been doing recently, a good purchase
for me would be a router.
Presumably when hand held, these are not particularly easy to use (say
for putting a door rebate in a piece of 4x2"). So, looking at both
Screwfix, and MachineMart catalogues, they have a few 'budget' router
tables. Some look better than others. These have got to be the way to go
when using a router? Or a complete waste of time and money? Ta Alan.

==================================
For the example you give (rebate in 4" x 2") a circular saw - either bench
or hand-held - would be quicker. Two passes through the saw will leave you
with a perfect rebate and a cleanly cut out strip of spare timber. Doing
the same job with a router would leave you with a pile of wood chips
blowing in the breeze.

It would be a good idea to buy a cheap basic router and experiment to see
what you can do with various bits before you consider a table. Some
jobs are best done with a hand-held, some are better done on a table. Some
of the cheap tables have rather crude fastenings for the router which
could work loose with dangerous consequences.

One of the Machine Mart tables which appears to be a new version of an
earlier one that was on sale briefly has an integral router so it
should be more secu

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/pr...enchtop-router

If you've got a pillar drill you can use it as a bench router with a
simple table attached to the drill table.

Cic.

--
===================================
Using Ubuntu Linux
Windows shown the door
===================================