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From: jimd@iddic.UUCP (Jim Delwiche)
Newsgroups: net.rec.wood
Subject: Re: routers, router tables, Sear's tools
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Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 12:13:32 EST
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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.