Bosch colt

[John Powers]

Anyone have first hand experience. Looks useful and generally good reviews but bit change seems to be a recurring knock. Just handled one and I like it. My other Bosch tools are winners and the bad reviews surprised me. thanks

[Myk Rian]

I don't have one, but those that do swear by them. Top rated tool.

[Kenneth Hertzog]

John
I have 3 of them which are VS.
I use them in the CNC router
other than the typical router wine
they are the same as all trim routers
have run them for 6+ hrs straight with no issue.
ken

[Craig McCormick]

I use one in my remodeling business to cut hinge mortises and for small round overs. I love it.

AZCRAIG

[Ed Labadie]

2 Colts here...each has a different roundover bit. I won't change it out until it gets dull.

Overall I think they are a pretty good tool.

Ed

[Van Huskey]

It really is one of those tools that for most jobs you do not HAVE to have but when you get one you find yourself using it a lot more than you ever thought you would. It is so much easier to handle and will work for most anything where you do not have to remove a lot of stock, but does have surprising power. I have used it to trim all kinds of things and I use it to trim my veneer in a shooting rig. I used it last week to do a hinge mortise for a neighbor and I chamfered a bunch of edges on a piece last month and it was the first thing I reached for. I have not had any bit change issues but I have seen it mentioned.

[Al Willits]

Probably doesn't do anything a full sized router can't do.

It's just lighter and easier to work with, changing bits takes a little bit, but never found it troublesome, the wrench that came with it didn't fit, but other than that, I like mine and would buy another one if needed.

I like the varible speed so that's the one I'd get.

Al

[Jeff Sudmeier]

I Have one, I love it. I use it for almost all of my handheld routing chores. Anything it can't do is done on the router table.

I probably use mine for more jobs than I should, but I don't have a 1hp router. I have a big 2 1/4 hp plunge router and the table mounted router. Since I got the colt, I don't use the plunge router much.

[Mike Goetzke]

I love this router too with the stock base - easy to control. I bought the larger round base that is used to hold template bushings and consider it unusable. It's hard to put in words but the design uses an "O" ring between the base/bushing/router to clamp the template. Problem is that after you tighten the base bolts to the router the base is warped. If you remove the "O" ring the base is flat but the bushing is loose.

Mike


Mike

[Craig McCormick]

I love this router too with the stock base - easy to control. I bought the larger round base that is used to hold template bushings and consider it unusable. It's hard to put in words but the design uses an "O" ring between the base/bushing/router to clamp the template. Problem is that after you tighten the base bolts to the router the base is warped. If you remove the "O" ring the base is flat but the bushing is loose.

Mike


Mike

Mike,

I bought a a round base for bushings at Rockler and mine didn't have the o ring you speak of. The bushings tighten against the base. No problems at all with mine.

Craig

[Brian Kent]

From Sam Maloof's workshop:

[Rob Hermann]

Love mine. No complaints at all. Use it for darn near everything and anything I don't do on the router table.

[Jerome Hanby]

I don't have the VS model, but i use mine all the time. Much easier to wrangle than my full sized router. Also, has plenty of power...

[Zach England]

Anyone else have tp remove the collet to change the bit every time?

[glenn bradley]

Love my VS model. The collet lock is a weak point. Bosch supplied a second wrench at no cost when I had the broken collet lock repaired (haven't used the lock since). This worked out great for me as collet locks always seemed clumsy to me. With two wrenches you don't apply torque to the motor body and they are so easy.