While I already have a rather tooled up shop (14" bandsaw, 6" jointer, cabinet saw, 12" planer, router table etc) I'm looking to get a specialty tool that will help me crank out joinery like dovetails or M&T much faster than on those tools. So im looking most at the Shark RS1000 Pro Vs Pantorouter. Have you used one/both of these? any inputs? things I'm not thinking of?
https://nextwavecnc.com/product/shark-rs1000-pro/
https://www.pantorouter.com/shop/pantorouter-with-all-accessories-b8mxw
The Shark is what im leaning to right now for the following reasons in no particular order
- Space - I already have a router table (which i dont use often because its a pain to set anything up on) so getting the shark would be less space than a new bench tool
- Faster operations for more than joinery - fluting, biscuits and other router operations seem like they would be sped up with the shark vs cranking out only joinery
- cost - the RS1000 is a little cheaper, than the pantorouter kit I would get plus I could sell off my router lift/fence as well as some jigs to offset some of the cost
- possibly less of a hassle to set up?
- More "work area" the shark seems like it could say, dovetail a much wider board than the pantorouter without having to reset the board and line things up
- this blew my mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3er2m_duGQc&ab_channel=MakeSomething
But, I cant discount the pantorouter
- I also have a 3D printer, so I could make custom templates - that seems handy
- seems like once you get the setup done - actually cutting a project the pantorouter would be much faster than the shark
- The pantorouter seems like it would be safer than the router table - one of the reasons I dont like my router table - the piece would be clamped down and the router is in a cage that I control with a lever from a greater distance than a push pad on the router table.
- I hate - absolutely HATE HATE HATE doing thinks like mortises on the router table where you lower the piece onto a spinning blade. Having the ability to "plunge" with the piece in place with shark seems better than a normal router, but the pantorouter seems like it would be even better than the shark
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o9K5c6FUfg&themeRefresh=1