Buy The Ultimate Router Base (Accessories sold separately)
Features
The Ultimate Router Base System gives you more control and increases safety and stability on any handheld routing operation.
It turns your router into the ultimate tool in your shop!
This system helps you produce accurate, precisely-matched curved joinery and dead-centered inlays over a seam easily every time. It’s perfect for any professional or hobbyist woodworker who wants to add new dimensions to their creations simply and safely.
With this one router base system, complex shapes, circles, curves and inlays can be made quickly and accurately, saving you time and money.
The extra-large, optimally-sized offset extended router base measures 17-3/4” L x 8-5/8” W x 5/16” D and is made of high-grade anodized aluminum, which is strong and lightweight and eliminates flexing.
The design adds surface area to your router base for greater stability, safer operation and more controlled cutting.
Our high machining tolerance avoids slop or wiggle that is sometimes found between a router base and standard template guides.
The Ultimate Router Base System is the only router base your shop will ever need.
Here's everything you get with The Ultimate Router Base System:
- Router base with large removable center disk that maintains safe and stable cutting when using large-diameter router bits
- Universal mounting holes to fit most routers, with plenty of room to custom mount your own brand and accessories.
- Extra thick 5/16” anodized aluminum base that eliminates plate flexing for more accurate and safe cutting.
- Universal mounting holes at the perimeter of the plate lets you make a quick attachment to another surface when creating a temporary router table, or when adding leveling skids or a shim sheet.
- Center and Fence slots for quick and easy custom add-ons like adjustable fences, or use for circle, large radius and oval cutting.
- The only offset router base that accepts any standard PC 1-3/16” template guide for increased stability and safety.
Mounting a Router using the accessory Centering Pin
One side of the Centering Pin fits ½” collets; the other side fits a ¾” I.D. template guide. Our 1” OD / ¾” ID template guide is machined to a high tolerance to fit the centering pin perfectly.
If you’re mounting a router with a ¼” collet that doesn’t align to our mounting holes, you can use these methods below to center your
router to The Ultimate Router Base.
- Purchase a separate ¼” centering pin with matching template guide with standard PC 1 3/8” socket. (Many small inlay template guide sets
include a ¼” centering pin.)
- Purchase a conical centering pin and use with our 1” template guide.
- Use a ¾” dia. router bit with ¼” shank with our 1” O.D. / ¾” I.D. template guide.
See mounting reference chart below for list of Brands and Models that fit The Ultimate Router Base
The Ultimate Router Base System gives you more control and increases safety and stability on any handheld routing operation.
It turns your router into the ultimate tool in your shop!
This system helps you produce accurate, precisely-matched curved joinery and dead-centered inlays over a seam easily every time. It’s perfect for any professional or hobbyist woodworker who wants to add new dimensions to their creations simply and safely.
With this one router base system, complex shapes, circles, curves and inlays can be made quickly and accurately, saving you time and money.
The extra-large, optimally-sized offset extended router base measures 17-3/4” L x 8-5/8” W x 5/16” D and is made of high-grade anodized aluminum, which is strong and lightweight and eliminates flexing.
The design adds surface area to your router base for greater stability, safer operation and more controlled cutting.
Our high machining tolerance avoids slop or wiggle that is sometimes found between a router base and standard template guides.
The Ultimate Router Base System is the only router base your shop will ever need.
Here's everything you get with The Ultimate Router Base System:
- Router base with large removable center disk that maintains safe and stable cutting when using large-diameter router bits
- Universal mounting holes to fit most routers, with plenty of room to custom mount your own brand and accessories.
- Extra thick 5/16” anodized aluminum base that eliminates plate flexing for more accurate and safe cutting.
- Universal mounting holes at the perimeter of the plate lets you make a quick attachment to another surface when creating a temporary router table, or when adding leveling skids or a shim sheet.
- Center and Fence slots for quick and easy custom add-ons like adjustable fences, or use for circle, large radius and oval cutting.
- The only offset router base that accepts any standard PC 1-3/16” template guide for increased stability and safety.
Mounting a Router using the accessory Centering Pin
One side of the Centering Pin fits ½” collets; the other side fits a ¾” I.D. template guide. Our 1” OD / ¾” ID template guide is machined to a high tolerance to fit the centering pin perfectly.
If you’re mounting a router with a ¼” collet that doesn’t align to our mounting holes, you can use these methods below to center your
router to The Ultimate Router Base.
- Purchase a separate ¼” centering pin with matching template guide with standard PC 1 3/8” socket. (Many small inlay template guide sets
include a ¼” centering pin.)
- Purchase a conical centering pin and use with our 1” template guide.
- Use a ¾” dia. router bit with ¼” shank with our 1” O.D. / ¾” I.D. template guide.
See mounting reference chart below for list of Brands and Models that fit The Ultimate Router Base
What People Are Saying
"After Scott showed us this base while teaching at the Chippendale School of Furniture, I knew this would be a game changer and help our students work safer, and with more control."
Anselm Frazer, Scotland
"This will make all my router operations much safer. Plus, the base has so many features all in one. I saw this in action at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking and I pre-ordered it on the spot."
Greg Zjnada, Illinois
"The longer offset gives much, much better router stability when doing edge work."
Fred Grosse, Virginia
"The router is my favorite tool (I have over 50 of them). I realized that putting all these different options into one base is a great upgrade over the standard base."
Jeff Krabbenfoft, Iowa, after Scott's AWFS class in Vegas.
Ultimate Router Base
FAQ
Can I mount my grandfather’s old router?
Yes, but you will have to drill mounting holes, which is easy to do. See the video on this page, above: Mounting Non-Conforming Routers
Can I use my own template guides in this base?
Yes, as long as they are standard, THE most common PC 1-3/8 insert types. Ours are made by the same manufacturer with very high tolerances. Other brands might have a slight amount of wiggle.
How can I cut a curved joint?
This system was originally designed for curve joinery. Using the large bushing and a template, you can offset the router bit to either side of the cutting seam. This is clearly explained in Scott Grove's book, Hardwood Edging and Inlay for Curved Tables published by Schiffer Books. Available at ImagineGrove.com
Mounting Hole / Brand Reference
Downloadable Reference Chart - Visit https://www.imaginegrove.com/downloads/
Disclaimer – During the design
process, I validated the mounting holes with as many manufacturers as I could. Sometimes I used third-party charts, which may not be accurate.
If your router doesn’t fit the mounting holes provided, it is still very easy to drill specific holes to mount it. For a video on how to, see video above.
Those routers marked with an asterisk (*) are confirmed with first-hand knowledge or direct customer experience.
Please let us know if any of the models
or brands listed do or do not fit, so we can update our chart. Thank you.
By Hole
A Hitachi KM12VC
A Makita 1100,1101
A Milwaukee 561 -5624
A *Porter Cable 100, 536, 690-93 series, 890 series,
9602, 7529, 8529, 97529
A Rigid 2200, 2930
B *Triton MOF001, TRA001
B Porter Cable 7518
C Bosch GOF 1600,1700, 400-900
C Elu OF97, MOF177,131, 96, 98
C *DeWalt DW621, DW611 plunge, DW618
C Makita 3600 series
C Trend T4EL
D *Festool OF1400
D Porter Cable 7518, 7538, 7539 2
E *Festool OF 2200 EB
F Hitachi M12VE
G *Bosch 1604, 1617 EVS
G *Skil 1322, 1323
H Additional mounting holes for accessories and bench mounting
By Brand
C Bosch GOF 1600,1700, 400-900
G Bosch 1604, 1617 EVS
C DeWalt DW621, DW611 plunge DW618 plunge
C Elu OF97, MOF177,131, 96, 98
D Festool OF1400 EQ
E Festool OF 2200 EB
A Hitachi KM12VC
F Hitachi M12VE
A Makita1100,1101
C Makita 360 series
A Milwaukee 5615-5624
B Porter Cable 7518
A Porter Cable 100, 536, 690-93 series, 890
series, 9602, 7529, 8529, 97529
D Porter Cable 7518, 7538, 7539 2
A Rigid 2200, 2930
G *Skil 1322, 1323
C Trend T4EL
B *TritonMOF001, TRA001
H Additional mounting holes for accessories and bench mounting