The reason you can cut bigger rebates is that the of2200has 3 bearings to the motor from the cutter. The biggest dewalt has only one small bearing near the cutter. Both pillars lock of. Try this, put the bars into the base and lock off. You will see the bars are not square. When you use the guide rail this tilts the base. Shim the bars untill the base of the router sits flush on the work piece. Use foil. When the saw sits perfectly flat, and because the pillars lock off square . The cutter will be 90° to the base. It is then like engineering in wood. But you have to shim the bars. When using the fence it really doesn't matter about shimming the bars. The 2200 is awesome! You need to get the Festool template ithas more support for the routers. Buy some pins for the base so you have a self centering mortise set up.
I currently use a Trend T11 but the dust collection isn't anywhere near as good. I think a 2200 will be my next buy with the kit so I can take advantage of my rails too
Hi, excellent video - new subscriber! Not wishing to put you on the spot - I'm building an electric guitar, would you think the 1400 or 220 would be best? I only have the budget for ONE of these awesome machines. I have a small router for fret work & other intricacies but want a new, main router, that will handle everything from body profiling to pickup / neck pocket cutting to neck shaping (to a template, I do the actual back of the neck by hand). Cheers! Ade.
As this was a one off door its faster making and rebating after (well for me anyway)was much faster, set up time on a single door is much slower. one other little thing I had to order the glass asap and start making the door at the same time so i had small adjustment if need as i did the rebate (on the finished door) the morning the glass arrived :)
I am not 100% sure, but I believe that the 2200 (I own one) do not work with the LR32 riel guide system, so probably need to buy also the 1400 . If anybody knows how to use or adapt the 2200 with LR32, please us know.
Cheers Garry, I did see there but didn't have time to order it at the time and saved the £80 :) I like having single jig that take my 1/2" and 1/4" router with a single set up as well .
There is also a rebating cutter for the OF2200 albeit an expensive one! www.idealtools.com.au/building/routers-and-accessories/cutters-router-bits/cutters-for-working-with-timber/rebating-head-and-spindle-with-reversible-replaceable-blades?limit=all
Manor Wood No but I can see it would be very handy taking the router to the work pice ... I was considering it then decided to create an insert plate for the HK85 which has more options for rebates www.dropbox.com/s/f267rwgl18z45gf/HK85block.pdf?dl=0 will also send some pics of my Domino work station when next in use
If you have a bit which is 12mm and work your way down to 25mm and need to go back and make the rebate a little deeper there in nothing to run the bearing on
