Does anyone out there really love their router table?

I've got the CMT pro one from Axminster - but with hindsight I would have been better making my own.

It's good table, and particularly the extensive and good quality range of accessories that comes bundled with it, are useful.

But I mostly run long boards (so a spindle moulder with power feed would be my ideal machine - one day it shall be mine!) - so I would have built a long, thin, but heavy, table to handle those timbers.

Equally a design like that would work as a freehand bench too - and then I'd make a hefty cross-cut sled for the CMT table.

So what I'm saying is, think carefully about the sort of work *you* do

- and how well tables you see match that.

Most tables seemed to be aimed more at the lighter end of cabinet making work - rather than for joinery.

I made my own (based loosely on the NYW design) with a nice big working surface and a router lift, which for me is the difference between love and hate for a router table. The only two issues I have are that it's still more fiddly than I'd like to change router bits and you do need enough space to get the most from a router table. And the typical british workshop doesn't have the 1000 sq. ft. you need to do justice to a full sized sheet of plywood.

I got a Wolf one. Its OK when held in a benchmate of whatever those things are called.

Really slightly crappo ones just take a bit longer to set up, that's all.

Can't recall which one I have, but have a good ook at Charnwood

Hmmm doesn't sound like anyone's really in love. Also I am really looking for something portable, the CMT ones don't look to heavy.