Editorial Product Review:

Amazon.com Item Description:
The router is arguably the workshop’s most versatile portable power tool. And you can further enhance its versatility with the Bench Dog 40-001 Benchtop Router Table, which converts a portable router into a stationary, mini-shaper. The benchtop table allows you to perform a wide variety of routing operations that would be imprecise or dangerous to do with a handheld router, including routing dadoes, rabbets, grooves, slots, mortise-and-tenon joints, and raised panels.

The Bench Dog 40-001 Benchtop Router Table has an ample 16-by-22-inch top that’s covered with smooth, hardwearing plastic laminate. It’s outfitted with an adjustable, precision-extruded aluminum fence that has T-slots for accepting various add-on accessories. Other features include a melamine cabinet, dust-extraction port, and a clear acrylic insert that has 12 leveling screws for quick, accurate attachment and adjustment of the router base.

Weighing approximately 35 pounds, the router table can easily be moved around the workshop and stored away when not needed. There’s some assembly required, but clear directions and all necessary hardware are provided, so putting together the router table doesn’t take more than about 20 minutes. -- Joseph Truini



Accessories available:
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Accessories available:

• Rousseau 3110 Benchtop Folding Router Table
• Rousseau 3508MT 24-Inch x 32-Inch x 1-3/16-Inch Router Table Top
• Bench Dog 40-025 Panel Hold Down and Safety Accessory
• Empire Manufacturing TOOL-6D The Complete ToolSaver System
• Rousseau 3550 Super Size Stationary Router Table

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Customer Rating: - great router table
I ended up picking this up from a woodworking supply store here in Portland. The price was higher, but I needed it right away so I spent more for it than I wanted to. This is a great table! Assembly was straight forward, the instructions were clear. Fit and finish is good, all the parts were in the box, etc. I feel like I never had full use of my router until I mounted it in this table. I'm going to buy the feather boards next. I definitely recommend this table.

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Customer Rating: - good small router table
We use this router table along with the Bench Dog lift as a basis of a small unit to custom machine samples for an instrument we sell. I like this table, but with a couple of comments. One is that the table Bench Dog is currently selling does not look like the one in the picture. Current finish is white mdf. I keep thinking it is going to be plywood, but it is not. The second comment is that they ship a table top stiffner that does not fit along with it. The stiffner is from their larger tables. No need and no way to use it on this table. Incidentally, I have not had good luck with the larger Bench Dog tables. The thin MDF table is just not stiff enough for the application. They get buy with it in this table because of the smaller size.

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Customer Rating: - Probably the best tabletop router table
I have had this router table for about 2 years now. Very impressed with the quality of the cabinet (all baltic birch) and the engineering that went into the design of it. The router plate that comes with it is predrilled for quite a few different routers, it fit my old Ryobi re600 fine.

Adjustments are easy enough. The fence is an aluminum extrusion with MDF inserts. It works well, though I don't care for MDF being used in this manner. I also had some of the screws that adjust the depth of the top loosen up after a year which caused the plate to sag a bit and the work to bind on the edge. It was easy enough to adjust it back to normal.

There is a metal plate that is available from Benchdog that would be stiffer than they composite one that ships with the table. I would like to see them include it but it may push the cost up some.

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Customer Rating: - The Best Bench Top Router Table
Bench Dog 40-001 ProTop Contractor Benchtop Router Table This is the best of the best and it made in USA. It also one of the best engineered products I've had the pleasure of assembling and the parts are made of first class material. The fence system is easier to use then the fence system of my larger router table and I won't mention the brand. Installing router bits is a breeze, and the wood cabinet is handy and also keeps the noise down. The way the dust port is arranged makes for a dust free work area. Ed Redman, Augusta, Maine.