Best for: The budget route
As we all know, black and yellow are the colours of tools. DeWalt, Stanley – to name two – and now ToolTronix with its 1800W Bench joins the pantheon of tools both noir and jaune.
Whilst not the absolute cheapest router table, the price is as low as I’m willing to go before we lose all structural integrity and end up considering making our own tables out of cardboard, for while you can pay less, you shouldn’t.
So, what does £60 get you? Well, the basics. A nicely sturdy aluminium bench-mountable table with pressed steel legs and dual extension tables that combine to deliver a decently sized work area, four steel clamps to secure your router, and an NVR switch. So, yes, basics, but a damn good start.
With a large, hard polypropylene 100mm fence that comes ribbed for strength, three feather boards are supplied to keep your digits at a safe distance from the spindle and to help keep your face free of fling-off, there’s even a dust port to help keep work clean.
Finally, featuring machined grooves for the mitre gauge when tackling more exciting angles, the ToolTronix 1800W can, as the name beautifully betrays, handle routers up to 1800W and for most home routage usage, it’s £60 enormously well-spent.
Material: Steel, polypropylene, aluminium
- Dust port: Yes
- Accessories: 3x feather boards, mitre gauge
- Dimensions: 46 x 33.5cm (L x W)
- Weight: 8kg
