China Tools Ep.55, Is this small routertable a tool or toy?

Enjoywood certainly have serious game in their field nowadays and I have really come to appreciate them as a brand that inspires both confidence and loyalty. This router table looks like it will be taking a bite out of my tool budget 🤣

Do you think the Festool OF 1010 would fit?

Thanks for another great review and it's great to see these companies reaching out to you for input - very wise decision on their part :)

Enjoywood has come up with some great products recently. Thanks for letting us know about some of them. - Chris

Well Dennis, so far your assessments are very accurate. What you are showing this time also looks quite good. The price seems reasonable to me, because if you want to buy a lift and a fence of similar quality separately, you probably won't save even a penny. Especially since you have a complete set in this offer!
The whole thing looks very decent, and I personally thought that such a routertable could be easily incorporated into a larger tabletop, creating a very stable place for milling small and very small elements. If you buy a good quality router, not necessarily battery-powered, you will get a PRECISION machining station for little money but high quality!
Thanks for the demonstration and showing a cool trick. Best regards.

What would be more ideal would be for them to integrate their mini router lift into a “professional” version of this. Ie. the columns mounted directly to the table.

Wouldn't it be awesome if the flanges that sit on the workbench are set for 96mm dog holes, and an optional extra be included of threaded dog holes to lock it down to a workbench!

Nice piece of kit. Flash sale on £215.18

Fantastic review, Dennis! Thanks a bunch for all the tips! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Thanks for sharing, love your channel man. Any suggestions on where to source a router lift for a bigger half inch router?? Thanks again

Great!... other stuff i want to have. You making me poor!

Excellent product. Excellent review!

I finish work, I see Dennis make new video, I am happy

I have the Jessem roller guides and the mounting bolts are a few thou too thick to easily slide in the provided groove on the Enjoywood router fence. Need to fettle the fence when I get a moment.

Dennis: I use the router lift / fence combo that you previously reviewed, and I do find that the height of the bit can shift during a cut (since it doesn't have a lock). It seems to happen when there is a lot of vibration, probably when the router speed somehow matches the resonant frequency of the table I have it mounted in. You probably didn't experience this because you were using a very substantial table.

the big difference between this table and the router lift...is the lift.. the table should have room for the router lift... then it would be perfect

Hi Dennis, thank you for your presentation! Could you recommend also the nice looking combination square that you're using in the video. What brand is it? Thank you and greetings from Switzerland! Daniel

Not sure about this one, the small router tables for the mft from tso seem better value and more suited to site work, im sure benchdogs are working on one for their new bench. If at home i think using the other lift in a homemade top with the fence denis used in his will be a better option

It's much easier to build your own router table around a router lift than having a fancy aluminium table where adjusting height is a pain. Also, it's missing a starter pin, which is essential for safe work without a fence.

I was surprised you didn't discuss setting the bit height in the router table versus the router lift. The router table appears to rely on the router's own base adjustment, which will vary based on manufacturer and some may have its controls blocked by the table structure as you found for on/off. However, a router lift gives one accurate controls for adjusting bit height, which I suspect is more problematic with this router table.

Shame it's only for trim routers, you'd think a router table would be better with the extra power and 1/2 bits

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Ik zou wel zo'n tafel willen hebben. Alleen de prijs schrikt wel erg af. Daar gebruik ik het te weinig voor.
Eens even zoeken of ik iets vind wat mij beter schikt...maar blijf vooral zo doorgaan!¡!!😅

Dennis, as always, your symopsis and thoughs are right on and invaluable. Thank You!!

Great review Thanks for sharing

Hi Dennis, great product and a good demonstration great video

Thanks for the review Dennis. On the compatibility you mention Dewalt and Makita are you aware if this will be compatible with Milwaukee M18 fuel trim router, thanks in advance

Dennis, Great video as always. How about the option of the table top being able to take the small router lift. The combination would compliment both the table and the lift. Keep up the great videos.

$279. Woodpeckers is $349 - better designed and made in USA quality as well for an extra $70.

I think Chinatools niche in the market is cheap tools undercutting the western produced ones. This does not fit the niche.

I would really like to see such routertable for the large handheld routers.

Can you locate a full size router table?

I just want the small miter gauge for my router table I already have

VERY sweet router table. However I think it needs an additional power switch on a front leg.

oops. I commented about 10 seconds before you showed the fix. I'll be more patient now.

Hi Dennis, Thanx for your review. I purchased this 8 days ago when the video came out and had it delivered (china to NL) yesterday. I assembled it yesterday and have some further thoughs:
- The supplied flipstop suffers from the square-nut being too big so it doesnt ride nicely in the alu-extrusion and the flipstop wobbles (fix: grinded off one part of the square nut a bit).
- The Miter gauge does not ride nicely in the groove. Some screws protrude from the bottom of the gauge and damaged the bottom of the groove (fixe: grind of the two screws used for the black adjustabl plastic ring but some damage is done).
- The holes (2x3) for the two horizontal table braces are clumsy choosen. Now they are 2 sets of 3 holes and you can only choose between the lower OR the higher mounting, however if they spaced all holes the same distance (at no extra cost), one could be even more flexible.
- The assembly instructions ARE included but a bit clumsy (black and white and mentions the wrong screw-length) but for the DIY-er no big issue.
- I have mounted my cordless DeWalt DCW600 with no issues.

I believe I will be very happy with this unit and it is by no means perfect but the ballance between price and quality is very ok!. Thanx again!

Thanks fella for the review 👌

I love you, thank you for everything

Good morning 🌅, Great looking 👀 product,

Your series for China tools is awesome - real value added!

P.S. Please provide info on what load cell kit do you use in your videos and if possible also a link on where I could buy one! Thanks!

Excellent presentation. You covered the tool well and accurate. Well done.

Do you think the makita 18v trimmer or even the 40v trimmer are powerful enough to use a mitre lock bit on 18mm mdf using this table?

Whilst I agree with the quality of this table, it is important to recognise the fact that, depending on where you are shipping costs can make a big difference. in my case in the UK the cost of the table is £196 with a massive £56 shipping charge. This brings it up to just shy of £253 which is not good value for money, for me the price score is 3/5. There are cheaper options from UK suppliers which may not be as 'wow' as this but they do the job just as well. Necessary to not be 'seduced' by China tools and Bangood products.

Dennis, does the table, itself, have what appears to be dog holes at the back like it does at the front? I'm referring to the ones at each corner on the other side of the miter slot. I'm asking, because if those are spaced at 96mm centers, just the top could be used with something like the TSO Products Power-Loc Bench Connector Dog for connecting the table directly to a MFT. Chamfered holes would be needed, too.

Waar heeft u de snelklemmen vandaan waarmee u de router table vast zet?

It looks like a well engineered and relatively well thought out router table but considering the price it seems relying on the router base to set the bit height is kind of the weak link in the system. At least that applies to small routers with the Makita-style trimmer base which doesn't really have a very precise way to set the position of the bit. They should engineer an insert with a built-in lift and then it would be more useful and reliable in terms of the fine control it allows in setting the bit height, which is usually a requirement when working in a table configuration.

Watched the video and then purchased one. I have been downsizing my shop for a while since I now only do smaller projects. This unit is absolutely great! Very well built, sturdy. My only "complaint" is that like a lot of tools the dust port did not fit my standard 2.5 inch hoses. So I just 3D printed a new one. In red of course. I also like that the router and base can be removed quickly for free style routing. Took me a week to discover that feature. Thanks for the video!!!

Dennis after watching your video I thought I would order the router table and accessories a little bit at a time. I ordered the lift. What router models do you think would workk best. You seem to have some reservations about the Makita.

Hey, from which company is the flip stop with micro adjuster and where can I buy it. thank you very much and greetings

Has anyone found a router lift that fits this table? I would really like to find one but nothing yet... thanks in advance - Shane

Where can I get one? Amazon doesn't carry it.