Pro Phenolic Router Table, Fence, Stand, & FX Router Lift

I'm new to router bench work, but this seemed like a product with good reviews. Sadly the router stand hardware was lost during shipping. The base is heavy and the packaging arrived mangled and the hardware missing. Rocklear replaced the lost parts. The instruction were ok with most of the effort being intuit. The starter pin wasn't covered in the instruction, but the LIVE CHAT folks forwarded me a link and that cleared up. I am satisfied thus for with my experience and will likely buy more from Rocklear

Upgraded from a 15 year old aluminum table. Installation was fast and simple, and the table itself was the perfect height to mount inside the extension of my table saw. The lift mechanism is smooth and effortless; the fence and table are perfectly flat, and the weight of the insert helps keep the router and bits from vibrating.

I made my own router table many years ago and it was pretty good, or so I thought. When I got to a point where I wanted to do more furniture making and fine woodworking I replaced it with this table. Let's just say it changed my woodworking life. Less set up time, better control, easier to use jigs, and the results have been seen by myself and my family.

I was using a router table package from another company (for 6 years) and was always a bit unsatisfied. I finally decided to swap it out for this and wow - what a difference! The lift is excellent and the top was perfectly flat and smooth. The only bummer was that I had a dust box that no longer fit. It took a lot of bending metal to make it work (which it now does) so I'm happy. Overall, this was an excellent purchase that was long overdue

Very nice, router lift works great and table and fence are very high quality. The only thing it lacks is a remote on/off switch for the router mounted on the front or side. I know I can buy one and install it, but It would be a very nice addition to the package.

Slick operation! Love it!

I've been using the Rockler setup for about a month now and have had no problems. The system has worked out great. I've used it for joinery, molding, planing, dado cuts and making stiles/ rails cuts. The table top and fence are flat and accurate. The lift is solid (no slippage issues) and is the only way to go for easy setup. Table top is designed to fit the Rockler stand without drilling any additional holes. I also bought the Rockler casters and their ability to lock down and not swivel make for a steady work station.

quality of product very goo. some of the instructions weren't very thorough and required some interpretation. The lift itself works very well, but access to change bit is difficult (porter cable router)

Easy to adjust. Used a home made router bench for years. It was hard to do quality work. Rockler bench with lift is great. Instructions for installing router were not clear, but I figured it out OK. Love it.

I have had an older bench top Crafstmen router table for quite a while and it got the job done, but I "window shopped" this table/set-up for quite a while and when Rockler was running the special of getting the Porter Cable router with the table and lift for free I jumped on it. What a step up! The table is great! I can't believe I lived without a router lift for so long. Oh how that makes life so much easier when it comes to bit changes! I would also like to say that Rockler did a fantastic job with customer service. I was shipped the original phenolic top and it had a long crack along the backside of the table and Rockler shipped me out a new top ASAP! Great customer service, excellent product! I ended up ordering the 3" leg extensions for the table stand and it made a world of differnce putting the table at a much more ergonomic height!

My phenolic router top was busted when I received it. Rockler reordered me another one. I haven’t received it yet. It’s on back order until 3/13/18. I wouldn’t recommend buying this product.

This is my first ever router table, never had one, never used one. Up to this point in time I've never needed one, all my work was done with a hand held router. I read reviews for various tables, even the ones listed here as well as looking at them in stores. I chose this one for no particular reason other than the store had it in stock and I needed to get some work done. The assembly of the metal stand was no problem, very easy, my only advice is to have help when you square the legs. The table seems to be pretty good, surface wise. I can't say much for how the plate is leveled. The table has pre-drilled holes for the leveling screws, the main concern here is go slow, use a socket driver and make sure you get them in straight. No power tools. I had read about this issue so I knew to go slow. Rockler should put threaded inserts in the pre-drilled holes. Leveling the plate can be a bit of a pain, just be patient. The instructions are a bit vague both for the plate as well for the lift but once you read through them about twice and look at the photos it all comes together. Same thing for the fence, its directions are just photos, but was an easy assembly. The lifts instructions for installing the router aren't too bad. I think the key to the entire process is read the instructions, be sure you understand them, and take your time. Which for me total time was about 3 hours which included connecting it to my vacuum system. Since I've never used a router table I wasn't sure about the learning curve which was pretty short. I watched a couple of "how to 's" on you tube and ran a few pieces through, no problem. I didn't rate this table a "5" because of the pre-drilled holes and the possibility of getting the screws in crooked and the problem with leveling the plate. Over all, the quality is pretty good. You might say the price is a bit high but it boils down to how bad you want or need it. You can always go cheaper as there are cheaper tables out there, but based on experience with cheap price the quality is cheap as well. If I had to recommend this entire table to a friend, I would. Oh yeah, I chose the FX lift because that's what the store manager recommended and he hasn't given me bad advice yet. I matched it up to a porter cable 890 / 892 router, again his recommendation as well I've used porter cable tools before and still do with no problems.

Overall nice product but here is where it can be improved on. The auxiliary fence sticks out proud of the t track section of the fence, so if you are using a feather board the feather board is at a slight angle. This fence should be on one plane so that jigs or anything attached to the t track sits flat on the fence. The next thing is the screws that level the router plate are only screwed into the top with no way of locking them. I own a Benchdog table and there is a mounted metal frame on the underside of the table that all the screws go through with locking nuts on each. One more little thing, I purchased the dust box made by Rockler, it is of nice quality, but I feel they should pre drill the four holes require to mount the box. This would be very easy to do in production. If you do drill into the phenolic table use the biggest bit you can get away with for the screw you choose and also use wax or some other lubricant to drive the screw or you will shear the screw.

Product is solid and functions well, once you have figured out the installation and operation. The installation directions are skimpy at best and assume that the purchaser already knows how to use the product. The directions need many more labelled photos and step by step details.

The stand is very high quality and very sturdy. Fence is easy to adjust and lives up to the description. The FX router lift is definitely top of the line and very easy to use and easy to remove and install the router if needed. I am very disappointed with the phenolic top as it is not at all flat! When checked from end to end it sags a good 1/16 to 3/32 in the center at the cutout for the router lift. Going to try to shim up the center off the stand rails - if that doesn't do the trick its going back.

Table was great and the left but the metal legs were incomplete and it took them three shipments to get all the parts to me.