great product, a little bigger than i thought, heavy and works great

great product, a little bigger than i thought, heavy and works great   Read Less

The router works good. The collects that come with this router are junk. The bit sticks in the router and is a pain to get out....  Read More

The router works good. The collects that come with this router are junk. The bit sticks in the router and is a pain to get out. Luckily I broke the collet and purchased a collet for a bosch 1617 router it works on the hitachi router and is a lot better quality. No more problems. Hitachi needs to make better collets for this router.   Read Less

This is a nice router packge But it is not perfect. The plundge base takes a little time to wear in. Meaning mine would sometim...  Read More

This is a nice router packge But it is not perfect. The plundge base takes a little time to wear in. Meaning mine would sometimes stick when down after a litttle use and wiping the rails down with mineral oil no prob. The bigest gripe I have is if you use the 1/4 in collet the bits stick very bad I tried everything to prevent it but they are a pain in the ass to get out. The 1/2 in no prob work fine. So for me I gave away all my 1/4 in and purchased new 1/2 in shank bits. Less flex it cuts nicer with the 1/2 any how. It does come with a template set that is a nice bonus but I have yet to use. Mine is used in a table 90% of the time. I have a shaper spindle that lets me spin 1/2 shaper bits in it. being it is varible speed you can turn it down to 10 thousand RPM for the 2 1/2 and 3 in bits. I have ran raised panel oak doors through mine and it has enough power to knock them out. I have used it almost daily for 2 months now. I ordered it from Amazon used it twice made a very nice router table thenthe first time I neede to turn the speed down the varible speed went out it was stuck wide open. Needing it that day I took it to lowes and they exchanged it and I have been using it since. Overall it is a lot of product for the money. As far as I am concerned the 1/4 in collet is usless so if you wan't to use 1/4 in shanks this is not a good choice as both the routers I had did it. The plundge did stick a bit but with help of mineral oil freed up just fine. Other than the gletch with the speed I like the router. I Bought this size router for the 1/2in shank so that is no big deal for me. I give 4 stars and will keep you posted if any changes happen   Read Less

Very nice solid and accurate router for woodworkiing. I was disappointed that it did not come with the wrenches for tightening...  Read More

Very nice solid and accurate router for woodworkiing. I was disappointed that it did not come with the wrenches for tightening router bits in it. Luckily I had wrenches from other routers in my shop so it was no big deal for me. I had purchased this from Warehouse Deals so am guessing the wrenches may have originally came with the router but somehow through Warehouse Sales, the wrenches may have gotten lost during packaging.My four star rating was given due to the fact that I received the router without wrenches for it.   Read Less