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Which do you prefer: Handheld router, or router table? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/woodworking

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Until fairly recently I owned just one router. I bought it, immediately installed it in the table it came with, and it has come out of the router table exactly once since then to cut a couple slots. I have since bought one of those little "trim routers" but I still do the bulk of my routing work in the table.

I'm curious, how do the rest of you prefer to work? Do you mostly use your router handheld or in a table?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I have just the one traditional router and switch between using it in the table or handheld. It mostly depends on if I am doing any plunge routing to inset something or templating, then I’ll take it out of the table. Otherwise it’s mostly in the table.

I was looking at a trim router mainly as an excuse to buy a DIY CNC kit, but then it’d be mounted in that mostly.