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I stumbled across this earlier today. It looks fairly well designed and reasonably priced, and might be a nice option for those who aren’t interested in designing / building their own. Even though I’ve mostly built my own already, I pledged for one of these as well, as I like the easy method for tool changes.
Interesting that the hole is big enough for the collet to fit through and not much more, most of the other designs I’ve seen fit around the entire router body - I think I like this.
The only thing I haven’t been crazy about with a dust boot is that you can’t zero the bit with it on because you don’t have access under the boot. But this looks like maybe you can lift the boot straight up (even has magnets at the top so maybe you don’t have to hold it) which might work. It doesn’t look like the brushes lock in place, they’re just sitting on the stock surface, don’t know if that’s an issue - maybe not at first, but once you’re far enough into a carve that has had a lot of top surface removed it might catch.
Yes, I too added this to my list of I can build that. But after realizing I still have to build my X-Carve I decided to break the seal and back my first ever Kickstarter plan also. Now to wait on delivery.