For manual grooving, rebating and moulding of timber – and some soft plastics/acrylics – the workshops are complimented by a large Festool router mounted under a table, fitted with adjustable fence and cutter guard. Fulfilling the function of a spindle moulder, but accessible to members and other makers, the table router set up is an additional tool for furniture making, general woodwork tasks and construction projects.

Like the Makita lamella cutter and Festool Domino jointer, the router is primarily for secondary production after primary dimensioning machining completed with CNC or table saw and Axminster planer thicknesser. Depth of cut is accurately selected and changed with a simple crank tool. The router takes 6,8,12 shanked cutters and has matching interchangeable collets. A range of router tools are available from bearing cutters, end mills, and moulding profiles. It has its own Record extraction LEV unit drawing waste from the cut area through the fence back.

The router can be disassembled to allow use of the Festool as a traditional hand router for heavy machining the smaller workshop Festool is unsuited for. The router table set up can also be used for jigwork especially curved profiling.