Router recommendations

[BEJ]

Have been using both Ridget R2401 and Ryobi TR30 and TR45 trim routers, show up quite a bit on E Bay. I have a mess of them and work real well as dedicated set ups in various jigs.

[Haussmann]

I am a fifty-five-year-old furniture maker with a number of routers under the workbench. Large, small, expensive, and cheap, but in recent years, I have almost exclusively been using this one:

[phavriluk]

Good advice here - - - shop carefully for used/repacks. Buy time, they don't make any more of it.