Anyone use the Hawk Routershop?

On 25 Mar 2006 01:07:48 GMT, A Lurker <[email protected]> wrote:

>I've been lusting after the Routershop after seeing it several years ago
>the woodworking show in Valley Forge, Pa. Price kept going up and I forgot
>about it. Now with a major price rollback it looks interesting again. This
>is the guy with the split tilting table that allows you to move the router
>spindle 90 degrees so it is parallel to the table plane. It is a steel
>table with supposedly precision indexing and tilting which allows all sorts
>of profile effects. So, does anyone have any experience with this?? I'm
>currently using the Lee Valley/ Veritas steel table (smaller & no tilt)and
>I've been happy with that.


I found this review when doing a Web search to find out what the thing
looks like: <URL:http://www.woodshopdemos.com/rbi-rs1.htm>


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Chuck Taylor
http://home.hiwaay.net/~taylorc/contact/

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I'll let you know when mine gets here...

My father is an old engineer who loves to work wood - and fancy or
interesting gadgets. He probably owned the first fully outfitted stable
of Festool_s_ in the United States. He swears by them - funny that they
are only now starting to catch on. We used to banter - "Well my Unisaw
blah, blah, blah..." He'd respond, "Phooey Unisaw!! My Festool Circular
saw and guide - blah, blah, blah."

Anyway, to make a short story a bit longer - He's been intrigued by that
RouterShop for years - and the horizontal concept in general (and, dare
I say it, Woodrats). Says he's too old for buying one now, but he's
preached enough about it to me - I've caught the fever and ordered one -
well, 'backordered' one. Perhaps mid-April they say now. The
Woodshopdemo guy seems to love it -

If you keep in touch, I'll keep you posted. Though I must admit, I'm not
the expert most folks here are - just a hack, and a bad one at that. I'm
living proof that tools don't equate to skill - you should see what the
old engineer does with just a circular saw - from Germany...

- jbd
Denver


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Chuck Taylor <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:


> I found this review when doing a Web search to find out what the thing
> looks like: <URL:http://www.woodshopdemos.com/rbi-rs1.htm>


Chuck

Yes I saw that too. Thanks. Looks like he is the only one to ever admit
using one, and that was a freebie!

Jerry

John Dykes <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> I'll let you know when mine gets here...
>
<snip>
> Anyway, to make a short story a bit longer - He's been intrigued by
> that RouterShop for years - and the horizontal concept in general
> <snip> - I've caught the fever and ordered one - well, 'backordered'
> one. Perhaps mid-April they say now. The Woodshopdemo guy seems to
> love it -
>
> If you keep in touch, I'll keep you posted.<snip>
>
> - jbd
> Denver

John

Thanks for the reply, I was beginning to think no one had ever bought
one of these! Hawk had a pretty aggressive campaign, email announcement,
phone followup, and when I didn't hang up :) another phone followup. I
told the sales guy that I had posted in the "rec" and there were no
responses and the only known comments were the "demo guy" which was
probably a freebie. I asked for references who actually "use the thing"
and he said he was using his the prior night. The question "for what"
received a reply of "raised panels." Well I do make raised panels and
have my horizontal panel raising bit (cove and yes I could use more),
but I can buy a lot of bits for over $500 just to do raised panels on my
current setup. So I asked what else he used the horizontal feature for,
and the reply was "just raised panels." Sooo, since their own sales
staff couldn't give me a more creative answer, my answer was "no sale!"

As you, I'm still intrigued and would love to hear your opinions. If I
hadn't purchased a used spindle skhaper recently, I probably would have
gone for it. As someone with a "metal background" I prefer cast or steel
to mdf and melamine.

Thanks and keep in touch. The simply munged address below will reach me.


Jerry

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