I mean the rotary wood milling tool, not an Internet router, so this won’t be interesting to tech geeks.  It probably won’t be interesting to anyone except me, but I need a place to house my research and process my thoughts.  A blog is supposed to be a journal right, so I shouldn’t apologize for writing something of interest only to myself.

My father said he prefers Bosch routers because the motors are almost impossible to kill and that he prefers a 3 horsepower router because it can swing a 3″ bit, but that I shouldn’t go below 2HP.  He said to get a plunge base rather than a fixed base for greater versatility.

Popular Mechanics published a comparison of 2 1/4 HP fixed and plunge routers in 2007 and the abridged version is as follows: PM agrees with Pops on the Bosch ($203), giving it their 5-star rating, as opposed to 4 stars for the Milwaukee ($188) and Porter-Cable ($259),  and 3 stars for the equivalent Dewalt ($204), Hitachi ($162) and Ridgid ($???), with a measly 2 stars being granted to the Skil which came in at an unsettlingly cheap $85.

So, it looks like will soon be mine.