Leegol Electric Benchtop Router Table Wood Working Craftsman Tool (Router Table A)

This router table deserves 5 Stars! I understand why some people give it less than five stars and its only because the directions are worthless. They do not tell you what is included in the package and which screw goes where. But, with a little common sense you can figure this out on your own. The one nice thing they did do is package each set of screws by itself. Meaning, all the screws that hold the leg and the extension table together to the tabletop are in a sealed clear plastic baggie. All the screws that go to hold the fence guards up are in their own plastic baggie, and so forth. Having said this, by orocess of elimination, the packet that contains 16 sets of screws, washers, nuts, go into holding the extension tables and legs to the router table. In order to get a nice flat surface with the table and extension tables, you have to do this with the router table face down along with extension tables face down. This will ensure that your work area is level and flat. There are a set of four holes per leg. Next, the packet of screws that contains a weird long metal thing, that is for holding your router to the underside of the table. You just use them as clamps and one of each of the long screws goes through one of the four holes on the table. You will see a very blurry picture of this in the instructions booklet, but again very worthless because it doesn't show you exactly how to place these clamps. I was a little nervous wondering if I had secured it well enough. But as long as you can't move your router around then you are fine. The next packet of screws should just have to Shorter screws with butterfly nuts and washers, those go to hold your fence to the table. The rest of the screws are to hold your fence guards to the fence. This is the simplest way I can explain it. Next, slide some spare pieces of wood back and forth along the tabletop. I noticed that there are some black pieces of aluminum that stuck up from the tabletop from production and they were leaving black marks on my wood. Once I knocked down all those little pieces of metal that were poking up, there were no more black marks. My dad suggested using some sandpaper to just knock down all the edges of the raised tabletop to make sure that didn't happen again, I thought that was a good idea but just sliding some old wood across the top was enough to knock all the edges down. And that's it! I absolutely love this tabletop. I love that it's made out of metal so I can leave it on my porch. My old router table was made of a laminated MDF and once the laminate cracked a little bit it started swelling up. This made for a horrible time getting precise cuts for my cabinet drawers! No warping on metal! Also, I read some people complaining about plastic guards, my old router had plastic guards as well and it was just fine. It's not some flimsy plastic. It's a very strong plastic fence just like most other routers have, you will not be disappointed. It held strong while I passed many pieces of wood through . Totally worth every penny I paid for this and some!

I got my router table a couple of days ago and decided to assemble it today. The material used seems to be more than adequate and everything necessary was inside the shipping box EXCEPT clear directions on assembly. Other reviewers are absolutely correct: The included manual is dreadfully lacking in clarity. For starters, color pictures clearly shot of each step would be far more helpful than the black and white included in the book. There are so many screws, nuts, washers inside that far more detail is needed to make it clear to an old guy like me as to how to use them and where each set fits. Another reviewer also correctly stated that with some patience and common sense, most of us can figure out where most of the screws go but it would be far easier and clearer if the directions were more robust and sets of screws etc clearly marked as to where they should be used. It would also be greatly helpful if Leegol made a video on Youtube showing each step of assembly. I'm sure they would have far fewer calls about how to assemble if they did. Having said all that, I was able to get the table together today with some educated guesses on where the hardware fits in. A friend is coming over tomorrow to help me fit the router (Craftsman) to the table. Hopefully all will go well. Update: I discovered after the fact that there are color pictures on a couple of pdf files having revisited the Amazon sales page. Some of that info did clarify some of my questions regarding assembly and function. Very nice table!

Very easy construction though the instructions suck.

I have an old but very serviceable Black and Decker router I inherited from my uncle. I bought this table to mount this old router.The table needed some setup to work properly for me. The mounting is universal, which almost implies a custom fitting. The table extensions are not useful to me. The miter gauge and the fence are very imprecise. Neither of them is plumb, each is off by a few degrees. I made a new face for the miter gauge and the fence, I had to shim them to be plumb. The slider in the miter slot has about 1/8 inch of play making it hard to cut 1/4-inch finger joints without practice.This table is a lot less expensive than buying a new router table, and it allows me to make use of my router. It needed a bit of custom setup to make it work for me, but now I am happy with it.