I subscribe to both Fine Woodworking and Wood Magazine. I received the latest copy of Wood a week ago and FWW came yesterday.
Both magazines have reviews of multi-base router kits (router combo kits). Essentially the same information in both reviews. Both gave the Bosch kit a top honor. FWW did not include the Craftsman kit, although it is a re-labelled Bosch. I know, I know, who would buy Craftsman anyway? Probably few, if any, readers of FWW.
FWW gave equal top honor status to the PC 895 although, on their chart, they clearly show they rank Bosch better across the board. Wood was neutral on both PC models they reviewed.
Another thread dealt with the credibility of tool reviews. The reviews I mentioned above seem to add fuel to the fire.
Regards,
Bill Arnold – Custom Woodcrafting
Food for Thought: The Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.
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The author of the FWW article was very clear in the text about his choice of the Bosch as best overall for freehand routing and the Porter cable as the best for router table use.
I checked with the author of the FWW article about why the Craftsman kit wasn't reviewed, apparently Sears hadn't started to distribute their kit at the time the article was being written, so the Craftsman router wasn't available for testing.
John W.
Conspiracy, of course.
But, does it matter?
They were very clear in the text that while the Bosch was better hand held, the PC was better in a table, and that was the reason for their evaluation.
I dunno, Bill, but you may be onto something. It's probably a liberal left-wing media conspiracy funded by the Democratic party.
If both articles had rated Grizzley as the top dog the we're really know what was going on!
Doesn't Grizzley make routers? Oh. Never mind.
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