Customer Reviews

Makita RF1100 2-1/4 HP Router

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After a lot of research on what my first router would be, I decided on the Mak RF1101. However, when I found the RF1100 on special, I decided I could live without variable speed. Compared to the PC 690 (kind of the standard for mid-size fixed base routers) the RF1100 is marginaly more expensive, but it weighs less, is more powerfull, has soft-start, and makes a lot less noise. The RF1100 has worked beautifully in every application I've used it: plowing dadoes, rabbeting, flush triming, triming edging using a shop built baseplate, and rounding over edges

One interesting thing is the fact that the base uses the same bolt pattern as the PC 690. This means that the RF1100 can use sub-bases, router table inserts, and/or template bushings designed for the 690.

I bought this router from Amazon.com a couple months ago. Being the first router that I have ever bought, I did a lot of research. After reading many reviews, I decided to go with the Makita RF1100. I liked it because of it's light weight and variable speed settings. Having used it for some time now, it lives up to all of the praise that I read about it. A finish carpenter friend of mine asked to borrow it from me after his died in the middle of a job. He absolutely fell in love with it, and it took over three weeks to get it back from him!! For my money, you can't go wrong with this router.