Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

After using this thing for a bit I have grown to dislike it very much. As noted by others, the table top isn't anywhere close to being flat. The pictures make it look like the top is machined flat, but that is pure deceit. I don't think aluminum can be stamped, but that's what it seems like they did. The surface is raised up around every hole and around the center insert. Small pieces of wood will ride over this top like going over waves. I had to clamp a piece of wood over it to make it flat enough to use. And then the fence - what a disappointing joke that is. The two pieces don't line up with each other and wood catches on the edges after passing by the router bit. I just tried cutting a dado which had two jogs in it caused by the wood passing by both edges of the fence. The leading edge catches on the left fence and the trailing edge drops off the right fence, making very visible jogs in the dado cut. Bits with bearings work fine because you're not relying on the fence for anything. I will spend a bit of time figuring out how to make this thing work better so I don't lose my money, but no one should have to do anything like that. This thing is more suitable to be a toy for little kids - without a real router in it. As it comes you can't do precision work with it. I love the Bosch router, but Bosch shouldn't be putting their name on this table, or make it a real router table. Go ahead and do what I did. I read the reviews and thought that with so many good reviews it can't be as bad as the bad reviews say it is, but it is every bit as bad as the bad reviews say it is. I wish I had put the two hundred bucks towards a real router table. I was just too impatient to wait and wanted something now, and wanted something cheap. This was one of the first tools I bought and I was surprised by how expensive decent tools are, but now I know it's better to save up a little longer and get decent tools instead of junk like this. Watch tutorial videos, you'll never see anyone using cheap stuff like this. They've been around long enough to know what is useful and what is junk. Anyone using this router table is a total beginner, or they've spent a bit of time making it work better.