"New Product: Woodpecker Router Table" Page 1

Sal is at the router table with two table tops showing. The smaller one is the CMT router table top that I have been using for the past three years. The larger top underneath is a relatively new product from Woodpeckers. It was made for use with the Festool MFT. I would mount it in one of my MFT's, but I need them just the way they are. I did think it might be real nice to mount this larger top on the CMT router cabinet.
	The CMT router table top was mounted to the cabinet by a dozen or so bolts that mated with knock-down hardware in the cabinet itself. Sal carefully drills new holes in the larger table using the old table as a template.
Having drilled a through hole for the bolt, Sal now countersinks the hole so that the bolt head will not be above the table top.
	With one bolt started, he uses a T-wrench to help locate the hole for the next one. One by one, Sal gets them all lined up and fastened and the new table top is in position.
And what makes a router tabletop great? A great fence of course. Sal opens the 2nd Woodpecker box.

	And another box. I will never complain when a product is double boxed. I don't like stuff that is messed up during shipping. This fence is clearly all together and waiting for Sal to figure things out.
He takes a minute to read the instructions.
	. There are a few steps to take, but all-in-all the instructions lead the way and the assembly goes together smoothly.
We did find that the fence was slanted back about a degree or so. We simply added a thin washer on the mounting bolts, and it now is perfectly square.
	He now uses a steel straight edge to check the alignment of the two fence halves — it is perfect.
He drops into the cutout, the Woodpecker Quick Lift that has been in use for a couple of years now. In it is the Porter Cable 7518 router. It is heavy but the quick lift handles it well. (PS- Woodpeckers just announced a new Quik Lift insert and we will be adding that to this review in September. See next page)
	It takes only a few seconds to adjust the elevation adjustment screws. Between the large, very level router table top and the lift plate, this will be a joy to run wood through — no catches, just smooth travel of the work piece.