Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site iddic.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!iddic!jimd From: jimd@iddic.UUCP (Jim Delwiche) Newsgroups: net.rec.wood Subject: Re: routers, router tables, Sear's tools Message-ID: <2285@iddic.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 12:13:32 EST Article-I.D.: iddic.2285 Posted: Mon Nov 11 12:13:32 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Nov-85 07:51:00 EST References: <478@harvard.ARPA> Reply-To: jimd@iddic.UUCP (Jim Delwiche) Distribution: net Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 15 I recently bought a Makita 3612br, which is their big 1/2" collet plunge router. I wanted a plunge router, and I was also considering making a dovetail jig to make through dovetails. The cabinetmaker who taught me how to make the dovetail jig recommended 2 hp or more for through dovetails in hardwoods, since you can't really do a partial cut; you have to be able to cut the entire depth in one pass. I am very pleased with this brute. It will be all the router I'll ever need and then some. It has collets to accept smaller bits, so you don't obsolete your collection of bits. I don't usually go overboard on tools, but this thing is great. In a router, I think more horsepower is safer, and it cuts very well in all kinds of wood. It would probably cut well in aluminum! There are nearly identical products from Hitachi and Ryobi (I think), and similar ones from some U.S.A. manufacturers.