Bosch MRC23EVSK 2.3 HP Electronic Modular Router System

LOVE this router. Plenty of power, smooth starting and operating. Very good ergonomics - love the trigger mechanism. VS covers a good range, soft-start is great - no bucking when starting. It also holds steady speed/power under load ... and I have pushed on this guy just to see if I could bog it down. I stopped short of being stupid /unsafe before I had bogged it! Fixed base does it's thing well, and plunge base is smooth, precise and overall great. Can't say enough good things. The ONLY downside I can find to this router is the weight - it is heavy. BUT any router of this power will be - heft comes with the power territory. It balances very well and is manageable despite the weight. I have had, oh, maybe a dozen routers over the last 25yr, still have many ... this is by far the most powerful + smoothest. Ideally, this would occupy the slot of "large router" in a shop and you'd have a trim router (and maybe a midsized too...) for lighter tasks. I honestly reach for a smaller one more often ... but this is an invaluable part of my lineup. In the role of large/power router, this one is unsurpassed IMHO.

Such a great router. I burnt my brain up researching between this one and two others I really liked for two months before deciding on this one. But this ones has features there's didn't. That lighted bottom is awesome. Extremely smooth and sturdy design. At first I had trouble getting the motor completely out, but figured there was a reason so I took my time and found out that there is. The fixed base has a 2nd safety catch, so you have to press TWO levers to release it if you are putting the motor in another base. The fixed base is where I noticed this. The reason is because that's the one you use for a router table. When it's upside down like that and you release it, it can come sliding out and crashing down. This second latch prevents that so you are ready and aware. I didn't know about that until I was playing with it and stumbled onto the article later. It's not advertised much for some reason. Just another testament to the engineering of this tool - such a great choice for so many reasons. I chose this one over the 1617 because of the handles too. Those wood knobs for an older person, is not a good idea. These handles on the MRC23 gives you so much more stability and control there's no contest. It's balanced very well. I am very happy with this router - plenty of power too. Thanks Bosch

The 15amp router market is usually reserved for Router Table behemoths - the big Porter Cables, Hitachis, Triton, and several others; with the 12amp doing the hand-held heavy lifting. This 15amp Bosch is clearly an exception - and and excellent one. I've pushed this hard for the past three weeks, with deep mortises in Jatoba (an incredibly dense wood) using Bosch's template guide bushings, and hand-held edging - more delicate, precise work. This router is smooth, relatively quiet, very predicable, and a pleasure to use. This replaces my venerable PC895, which is 10 years old, still as good as new, but a generation or two older than current models. Being a long-term PC user, I was concerned that my trained hand & body positions would make using the Bosch difficult - not a bit. The real advances for me are: Soft Start, power switch on the handles (unlike others in combo packages); quiet operations; better engineered dust collection - though, this is not dust-free by any stretch of the imagination; and effortless power which comes without the heavy weight of the routers mentioned above. Festool is a common comparison to Bosch; and I own several Festool products. Unlike many Festool owners, I am not a rabid fan - I buy for long-term professional-level functionality. For me, the Festool price-premium is not justified, when compared to the power, ease-of-use, and quality engineering this product demonstrates - not to take anything away from the OF1400 or OF2200 machines - for me, they're just not worth the extra money, compared to this. For $300, you'll get one of the best on the market, and certainly enough power to handle whatever you'll encounter.

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Es un router de muy buena calidad, arranque suave y mucha potencia. Tiene dos bases lo que es muy práctico si lo piensas usar en una mesa para router, no hay que estar desmontando el router, solo dejas la base fija en la mesa y la base con profundidad variable para los trabajos manuales.

Cliente satisfecho. El modelo y la marca lo mejor en este segmento. He utilizado routers de varias marcas a lo largo de décadas, así que basado en esa experiencia recomiendo ampliamente esta herramienta.

LA FACILIDAD DE SU MANEJO Y LO UTILIZE EN VARIOS CIRCULOS , POR LO PRONTO

Muy bueno excelente material de construcción muy potente llego con todos sus accesorios solo le pondría un pero creo que suspensión para darle profundidad es un poco dura o tal vez le falta lubricacion