$10.00 Trim Router

[Vernon Taylor]

Just got a weekly update from homier.com They have a laminate trimmer for $10.00. Item # is 02735 .Just thought that someone might be interested and this is not an endorsement. The question of quality is obvious but this might be the answer if you hate to change bits. Just buy enough of them so you have one for every bit For myself I think I will stick to my Bosch Colt.

[David Epperson]

Appears to be exactly like the Harbor Freight model only in blue - and 1/2 the price.

[Bill Arnold]

I agree with David -- looks the same as the HF unit. I have two HF trim routers as well as their cutoff tool that uses the same motor. All of them have served me well for years.

[John W. Willis]

I have several items from Homier which I am satisfied with but they apparently have a facility or do business in Tennessee so they charge me tax when I order. I usually get to their "mobile" tool sales locally once or twice a year.

This is a good deal so 10% on top wouldn't be too bad.

[David Epperson]

Looking over their site I found a 3hp Plunge Router for $49.99
And a lock miter bit for $14.99

[Gary Muto]

I have the HF trim router and like it too. I just looked at the site and they have a router table that looks identical to a craftsman/Vermont America that I also have. The table and fence are OK, it has an offset feature on the outfeed table which is nice. The extension tables are basically useless. But for $50, they are handy.

Not to Hijack, but does anyone know anything about the mortising machine? Looks like the HF model.

[David George]

Gentlemen, a question as it relates to these obviously Made in China routers and maybe this is not the thread to talk about this but:

Why? Is it on knock down, drag out price alone? A $10.00 Trimmer? We're all watching our wallets and it is America...we have choices but: Is this not contributing to what we pay in energy prices?, Housing? Food? The Chinese industrial machine that is sucking up world resources at an ever growing pace.

Again, I would not be so bold as to speak for your wallets but these $10.00 trimmers, $12.00 grinders, $49.00 routers, $15.00 drills....all contributing factors to the afformentioned problems with the US economy.

Now, I'm not going to run out and hoist my American flag and salute it at this moment but I may just go and pick up one of my 1930's era Rockwell Belt sanders and think about the folks who made it.

[Loren Hedahl]

Gentlemen, a question as it relates to these obviously Made in China routers and maybe this is not the thread to talk about this but:

Why? Is it on knock down, drag out price alone? A $10.00 Trimmer? We're all watching our wallets and it is America...we have choices but: Is this not contributing to what we pay in energy prices?, Housing? Food? The Chinese industrial machine that is sucking up world resources at an ever growing pace.

Again, I would not be so bold as to speak for your wallets but these $10.00 trimmers, $12.00 grinders, $49.00 routers, $15.00 drills....all contributing factors to the afformentioned problems with the US economy.

Now, I'm not going to run out and hoist my American flag and salute it at this moment but I may just go and pick up one of my 1930's era Rockwell Belt sanders and think about the folks who made it.

The Chinese people do not buy their $10 routers, or their $39.95 microwave ovens. But their government is trying to modernize their country by providing jobs that would pull these folks out of rice paddy type work.

So, what to do with all the routers and microwaves?

Answer: Sell them to those who want to buy them and have the money to do so. Who might that be? Americans.

So how are we paying the Chinese? With paper money, i.e., IOU's.

So when is the account going to be reconciled?

I don't know, but hopefully it will be over a long period of time and not abruptly.

In the meantime I have a nice little HF trim router dedicated to my favorite edge trimming bit.

[Brian Weick]

You get what you pay for- I bought a angle grinder from HF $30.00 on sale for $19.00 so I could strip my lathe - Surprisingly , it still works but it will not stand the test of time- that is for sure. I do agree with David - I should have purchased a USA made tool, I would much rather see American made machinery made by Americans than the Chinese made tools shipped over here. I guess it all depends on what tool you are buying and what you can expect out of it.
my 2 cents
Brian

[David George]

Loren, again, I fault nobody for their choice in purchases. It's your money! It's your choice.

"When will this be reconciled"? Hopefully not for a long time? So I guess it will just be our childrens problem, and their children.

Yep, out of the old rice paddys and in to those great jobs where they pull 15-18 hour per day shifts 7 days a week and sleep triple stacked in the company warehouse.

I've been to China, I've seen the conditions (at least the ones the government escort allowed me to). I'd hate to imagine the ones I was not affored a look at.

[Rafael Carias]

I had this same router by a different brand. I got it to dedicate it for flush solid wood edging. it didn't work out because the motor shaft had too much runout an I couldn't get repeatable results with it.

[Deck Reagan]

It's insane that the shipping cost is as much as the router!

Deck

[Vernon Taylor]

Gentlemen, a question as it relates to these obviously Made in China routers and maybe this is not the thread to talk about this but:

Why? Is it on knock down, drag out price alone? A $10.00 Trimmer? We're all watching our wallets and it is America...we have choices but: Is this not contributing to what we pay in energy prices?, Housing? Food? The Chinese industrial machine that is sucking up world resources at an ever growing pace.

Again, I would not be so bold as to speak for your wallets but these $10.00 trimmers, $12.00 grinders, $49.00 routers, $15.00 drills....all contributing factors to the afformentioned problems with the US economy.

Now, I'm not going to run out and hoist my American flag and salute it at this moment but I may just go and pick up one of my 1930's era Rockwell Belt sanders and think about the folks who made it.

David
I am not unsympathetic to your feelings, for many years I insisted on buying USA made but this has become virtually impossible. The tools we use in our hobby are simply not produced in this country for a variety of reasons not exclusivly price related. I have tools from all the major venders and I use the word vender advisidly. Whether you buy Bosch,Dewalt ,Festool, or HF they are all foreign made so unless you can find used tools you are facing the choice of either buying or doing without. Then it becomes a price.value situation. Festool and Fein have proven that we will pay premium prices for quality and innovation, it would be nice if B&D or some other compnay would produce well mde tools in this country to compete but that is apparently not going to happen,

[David George]

Vernon, let me clarify something.I am not all about Made in America. That would simply be foolish in todays world economy. Fein, Metabo & Festool (Germany), Makita, JET & Hitachi (Japan), Porter-Cable/Delta (now Mexico)etc... all have some great tools, are somewhat good trading partners, and of course, you want to find the best price you can on these. Remember when "Made in Japan" equated to utter junk? Not any more as I look over my shoulder at a 50" Toshiba plasma TV. Perhaps China will shed that moniker one day, no, I'm sure they will. But as of now, like another person here said: "You get what you pay for."

I'm probably like a lot of the woodworkers here, If my wife drags me to the local "Crud furniture-to-go" store, I'm not the guy sitting on the sofa testing out how comfy it is. I'm the guy who has the sofa flipped over looking at how the frame has been constructed. It usually is pretty bad.
Off to the American furniture store, same flip,good quality, costs more but it was made here.

Also, I can't fault companies that feed their families here buy offering the Chinese products. Capitalism is alive and well. I live it every day.

My 72 cents...

[Carl Crout]

Gentlemen, a question as it relates to these obviously Made in China routers and maybe this is not the thread to talk about this but:

Why? Is it on knock down, drag out price alone? A $10.00 Trimmer? We're all watching our wallets and it is America...we have choices but: Is this not contributing to what we pay in energy prices?, Housing? Food? The Chinese industrial machine that is sucking up world resources at an ever growing pace.

Again, I would not be so bold as to speak for your wallets but these $10.00 trimmers, $12.00 grinders, $49.00 routers, $15.00 drills....all contributing factors to the afformentioned problems with the US economy.

Now, I'm not going to run out and hoist my American flag and salute it at this moment but I may just go and pick up one of my 1930's era Rockwell Belt sanders and think about the folks who made it.

You just want us to buy Festool stuff so you can make some money off of us (rather than HF or Homier). We buy cheap tools for the same reason that we shop at Walmart.
The Industrial Revolution has moved from the U.S. to Japan, Then Taiwan and now China. In a couple of years it will be India.
The world is changing. Get use to it..