POWERTEC 71765 Rail Coping Sled for Router Tables, Professional Precise Cutting Rail for Cabinet Door Joints, Drawers and Woodworking

I'm using the sled currently to cut rebates into the end of some box sides. I was scratching my head to understand why my workpiece kept catching the out-feed side of my router fence and the rebate was fractionally out of alignment. I checked and double checked and the fence was completely coplanar. It transpires that the issue is the adjustable parallel fence on the sled. It's made of quite a flimsy plastic which distorts when the workpiece makes contact with the router bit, allowing the workpiece to twist/pivot slightly. Now I know what the issue is, my next job it to make a new fence from hardwood and add some high friction material to the bottom and side to make sure it can't flex in operation.

It’s not made of the best materials and will win no awards for fit and finish but I don’t want to deduct any points for trivial things like that at this price point. If it were 100$ or more yes, I’d expect more in those departments. All that said, none of it feels particularly cheap or flimsy either. I really like the handles and think they could’ve went cheaper there and got away with it. More and more I like Powertec equipment. This was my first time doing rails and stiles and everything ended up perfect. A big part of that was having this jig. Everything works well on this and holds it tightly. I had no worries about it being loose or anything moving during operation. It was really easy to put together and straight foward. Two different sized clamps was a plus although I’ll probably never switch it out, I like the larger one. This allowed me to make clean and accurate cuts. I’m glad I purchased this and will have it for a long time as I suspect I’ll be building more cabinet doors and drawers

Love this, makes me feel much more comfortable with using the router not concerned with losing fingers. Plus much more reliable cuts. Great quality.

Works well. Only two complaints....the sacrificial board was not predrilled as per instructions and the bolt on smaller head of the hold down (red) clamp is not long enough to securely hold narrow pieces ( less that 2").

I bought one of these to do some end piece router work. The sled has a few flaws. 1. There needs to be a better way to attach the sacrifice board, besides the 2 screws that go through the fixed sled. Not a very good way of attaching the board. 2.The mounting nuts and bolts for the lever clamp need lock washers . The nuts became loose after running a few pieces through the router. If you try to tighten them up to much you could pull the heads of the bolts through the sled base. Which brings me to 3. Make the sled base out of something besides Mdf board. The sled base is finished on both sides, which helps it slide easily, just should have been made of something else. 4. The two lever clamp holders. The big one won’t set flat on a piece of 3/4” thick by 1.5 inch wide board the rubber cushion is to big. The little one I couldn’t use at all because the threaded bolt is way to short to be able to hold down a 3/4” piece of wood. A pretty standard piece of wood thickness. You would have to add another piece of wood on top of your regular piece in order to be able to use the little holder. All in all I did use it and it got my job done but I think there could be some great improvements that could be done for just a few cents more. Thanks

Awesome tool. Greatly improved accuracy