New woodworking tool time 🙂

or for moulding the edges of the linocut press I copied from Kayak24 in the ‘what’s the last thing you made’ thread.

Kayak24 is my older brother.

If you're into Makita, then I would totally recommend both the corded and cordless Katsu routers.

Really great for the money.

Doing it for a job, I tend to leave one set up all the time with a little chamfer cutter so it's always there ready.

I'd also recommend making yourself a simple palm router table for it.
It makes working with smaller stuff safer and easier.

Brilliant little routers. Defo not quite as refined as the Makita they ripped off, but really good for the money and very versatile.

They tend to come with several accessories which can be handy (angled or offset base for example) but for quality, I bought the Makita plunge base which is very well made and the Katsu fits right into.

Oops, I aged you prematurely! Sorry and all that.

I've already got a rather shonky pressed steel and plastic router table. 'A bad workman blames his tools etc' but this thing is flexy and loose and just grim. However, it does have a small Bosch corded router in it that's probably removable? It's still a bit of a lump though.

Sounds a bit sketchy.

My router table for the palm router is similar to this. Smaller though.

I just clamp it to a corner of the bench, clamp a fence on top and that's about it.
Simple.

I was going to say the same as Kayak.  The Katsu routers are a good cheap knock off.  Or buy the Makita ones if you want to pay full price.  Up to you.

Thanks guys, button pressed. Any idea about any of Katsu's other stuff, esp. the paint sprayer? I have a dashed house to paint...!

If its that little handheld sprayer and you've an entire house to do it will either break before finishing or simply take you 6 months. Best thing to do is hire something.

Personally I'd have bought the makita trimmer and in 240v. Unlike some you're only going to have 1 router(How many you got Kayak ? 😆 ) and to be honest I have heard it can be a bit hit or miss on the quality of their construction.

Cordless is fine if you go from job to job, and dont always have a power source- or there isn't 5 other guys trying to plug their chargers into the one socket, and if you're going to be workshop based, a power point is always going to be available.

I've got a mains router already but it's cumbersome for smaller tasks. I have a smaller mains Bosch router mounted under the shonky router table I was given a while ago. I'm going to se iff I can build a router table similar to the on shown above by kayak23.

I have the makita lxt palm router.  Great bit of kit.  if you are a newbie with routing it's very very easy to screw something up in seconds.  practise alot.  I'll be honest it's not a tool I like using as I cock stuff up often when I do.  much prefer a chisel or sander still but that's just confidence, not the routers fault

You can buy fairly inexpensive aluminium insert plates for making little router tables which can be a good idea if you tend to fit and remove the router quite a lot.

Making a small one in mdf or mfc is fine but the little countersink holes you need for the mounting screws can be prone to sinking a bit if you fit and remove it a lot.

The bloke in this video fits one.

He keeps removing the spindle nut completely when he changes the cutter which is unnecessary though. You only need slacken it.

My quick and dirty palm router table.

They come, they go.

My beautiful cast iron serious table.

Fantastic thing for bigger routers 😊