Not that I tried too hard. My local Rockler had a Ready2rout computerized router table that had been a demo unit. It is apparently discontinued, and they had it marked down from about $1500 to $889. It included everything but the router, with metal stand, phenolic table, computer router lift, computerized fence, all the optional apps, and even locking wheels. It comes with a 1 year warranty.
I am not a computer person, but it intrigued me, and I went home and watched the videos I could find on the interweb. I really liked the fact that it is self contained and you just deal with a small touch screen, without having to interface with a laptop. I have a big PC router to use, and I decided to see if they would discount it any lower. I talked to the manager, who was very cordial, and told him I was interested, and it was worth $500 to me.
He said he could not sell it for that, and the price was his cost, and had already thrown in some extra options. He told me the head office would have to approve any lowering of price, so he would call them for me and let me know. I thanked him, and left to get some lunch and go home. In the middle of my polish dog, he called me and told me the head office had approved the sale.
The manager spent about an hour showing me how it works, and I asked if he had the manual. He told me it was on line and he would give me the web address. Not only did he do that, but once on there, he offered to print it out for me. Turned out it was 50 pages long. Once printed we looked it over and found it only covered the router lift. There was another manual for the fence, with 120 pages! And me a computer idiot.
The $500 really was all it was worth to me, and I was surprised they took my offer, but it was taking up space, and they had only sold two or three in about 3 years, and was discontinued.
On the videos, they show it making dovetails, box joints, dado's, and it figures out how many to put on any width board automatically, as well as centering them. One of those optional apps makes pocket holes, which means the bit rises as the fence moves at the same time. Don't need that, but it is cool that it can do it.
Should be interesting. New toy.
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Originally Posted by Alan Lightstone
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