BOSCH 1617EVSPK Wood Router Tool Combo Kit - 2.25 Horsepower Plunge Router & Fixed Base Router Kit with a Variable Speed 12 Amp Motor and RA1181 Benchtop Router Table
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Features
- Bundle contains Bosch RA1181 Benchtop Router Table and 1617EVSPK 12 Amp 2-1/4-Horsepower Plunge and Fixed Base Variable Speed Router
- Bentop includes 2 adjustable featherboards, dust collection port, dual outlet switch and 6-foot power cord
- Aluminum fence with MDF face plates and aluminum router mounting plate
- Electronic variable speed plunge and fixed base router kit; soft start, micro-fine depth adjustments
- 2-1/4-horsepower router combination kit; variables speeds of 8,000 to 25,000 rpm
Specs & Other Info
| Specification | Details |
|---|---|
| Brand | BOSCH |
| Construction Material | High-Quality Aluminum |
| Energy Source | Electric (Corded) |
| Peak Speed | 25,000 RPM |
| Base Configuration | Fixed and Plunge Options |
| Origin | China |
| Design | Includes Benchtop Router Table |
| Package Count | Single Pack |
| Initial Release Date | May 5, 2016 |
Frequently asked questions
The Bosch 1617EVSPK is versatile and suited for working with a wide variety of materials. Primarily designed for wood, it can efficiently handle softwoods, hardwoods, and wood composites. With the right bits and proper settings, it can also work on plastics and soft metals, but it's primarily optimized for woodworking projects.
Yes, the Bosch 1617EVSPK Wood Router Tool Combo Kit comes with a one-year limited warranty. This warranty covers defects in material or workmanship and includes free repair or replacement of parts. Make sure to register your product and keep your receipt as proof of purchase.
Absolutely, the Bosch 1617EVSPK features a variable speed motor that allows you to adjust the speed from 8,000 to 25,000 RPM. This range makes it suitable for various applications, from intricate detailing to heavy cutting. The speed control dial is conveniently located and easy to adjust to match the speed to the specific material and bit being used.
Yes, the Bosch RA1181 Benchtop Router Table offers a versatile design that accommodates many routers from different manufacturers. It's designed with a large aluminum top for wide workpieces and includes adjustable fence pieces and mounting hardware for compatibility. However, it's best to check the specifications for the mounting hole pattern to ensure compatibility with your particular router model from another brand.
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This is our summary and key points to consider based on customer reviews.
The Bosch 1617EVSPK Router Tool Combo Kit has garnered high praise for being an exceptionally well-designed and versatile tool suitable for a wide range of woodworking projects. Users commend its powerful performance on both soft and hard woods, highlighting its easy-to-use features such as the quick switch between bases, the precision in depth adjustment, and the added value of the edge guide/circle cutter. Its solid build and thoughtful design details, such as the flat top for easy bit changes and real wood handles for a better grip, make it stand out as a reliable tool for both amateurs and seasoned woodworkers.
Pros
- 🔨 Solid design and construction for durable use
- 🔄 Easy to switch between bases, enhancing flexibility in projects
- 🎛️ Precise depth adjustment, retaining settings between base switches
- ✂️ Includes an edge guide/circle cutter for added versatility
- 🔇 Operates quietly with minimal vibration, ensuring comfort during use
- 🚀 Features a slow start for safer operation
- 👌 Flat top design and real wood handles for ease of use and better control
Cons
- 📍 Switch location may be inconvenient for some, though not a major issue
- 💨 Potential for dust accumulation in the switch, requiring occasional maintenance
- 📦 Carrying case does not hold the edge guide
Should I Buy It?
If you're in the market for a router that champions quality, versatility, and ease of use, the Bosch 1617EVSPK is a compelling choice. With its robust performance across a variety of woodworking tasks, thoughtful design features, and overall reliability, it represents a solid investment for both novice and experienced woodworkers. Recommended for those who value precision and versatility in their tools, this router is likely to exceed expectations and provide excellent value for its price.
Style: Industrial
What is the key feature that makes this router especially useful for some tasks compared with others I own? It's the depth setting adjustment, shown at the left side of the first image. It covers a wide range with fairly granular control of the depth steps. Why is this useful to me? This current project is a good example- speaker cabinet front panels fabricated from hard rock maple ply. This is serious stuff for power tool woodworking, cabinet grade MDF is like butter or cardboard in comparison. So, it's pretty mandatory when doing a deep route to use a number of shallow steps and a slow feed. This fixture makes that very straight forward, and very repeatable when doing multiple routes of the same dimension (second image, routing cut outs in progress for the inner front panel of an LF module for a high end speaker system. It's easy to calibrate for a consistent starting point and getting very exact results for a number of operations. Now, no router I've found is the perfect router for every job. This Bosch tool is very well built, has excellent torque and speed control, and with the additional fixed base can handle a variety of jobs. Where some might find it lacking is having a comprehensive dust collection feature built in with a clear dust dust shield over the working area, like some DeWalt and Porter Cable 1/2" shank routers I own. But that same dust shield can limit the utility - specifically, the depot of plunge for the router, and the depth of cuts. Here, on this project, I'm working with 1-1/4" maple ply and 1-1/2" maple ply, and doing cuts between 1" and 1-1/4". This isn't possible with the routers featuring the dust collection and dust shields, because of the limit these place on plunge depth with multiple passes. This is why I tend to have multiple routers chosen and setup for specific jobs, and leave them that way once things are dialed in. I have three of the Bosch 1617EVS now for that reason... two with plunge base setup, one with fixed base. The other thing I have found very useful with this Bosch model is the accessory template guide adapter and templates. Here are pictures of the base with the template guide and a short adapter for 1/2" solid carbide spiral up cut bit installed, in the "baseline" position and extended. One of the 1617EVS is always setup with this adapter. What I find the fixed base configuration useful for is trim functions using follower bits of various types- from setting the rebate for a high frequency driver after boring the original hole with a Forstner bit, or trimming a side or inner route flush using a 1/2" shear trim bit. I have jobs for which this configuration works better than my 1/4" shank trim routers.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2023 by Mark B. Hancock Mark B. Hancock
Style: Industrial
BOSCH tools are superb tools. I have four of their routers and have never had issues. Each is OVERPOWERED for the job they do, and makes whatever bit they hold last forever. Some people complain about their weight. If you want a light weight tool, then buy a light tool.... but you get what you pay for. A heavy BOSCH usually means it will be with you pretty much forever, and you'll passing it along. Don't know about their service department because I've never had one break. The plunge capability allows me to cut mortises repeatedly.... given a super sharp blade, the process is effortless.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2025 by CHARLES E DAVENPORT
Style: Industrial
This thing is a beast. Plenty of power even in hardwood with large bits. Plunge works smoothly, and it can lock at depth. The only downside is that it can be a bit heavy. It is easy to swap between the fixed and plunge heads. Read the instruction manual if you aren't familiar with routers.
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2025 by Colter Bame
Style: Industrial
This router is a great product and the kit is well worth the price. The motor has ample power and the unit handles very easily. I had an issue that required me to contact Bosch Customer Service. They provided resolution quickly and completely. I highly recommend this router. I also use Bosch router bits which also perform admirably.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2025 by Tom
Style: Industrial
Works beautifully and Bosch products never disappoint.
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2025 by Samsquanch
Style: Industrial
For people on a tight budget, having the ability of a single router to switch between a fixed base and plunge base configuration may seem to be ideal. Only 30 to 60 seconds are needed to switch this router between the two base options. The cost of this kit, without adjusting for inflation, is less than what I paid for a Milwaukee 2 HP fixed base router roughly 33 years ago (adjusted for inflation, that 2 HP router would have cost $653 today). I much prefer having dedicated routers that are permanently set in a fixed base or plunge base configuration. Some operations, such as cutting dovetails with a jig, may require dedicating a fixed based router or two for just that one task, so as to avoid wasting considerable time fine tuning the router’s depth of cut to create tight fitting dovetail joints. The PantoRouter that I bought a few months ago included a fixed base Bosch 1617 EVS router. That router in the PantoRouter has performed well, although I managed to stall out the motor in that router a couple of times while cutting a ½” wide through-groove in 1 ½” thick hard maple, likely cutting between ¼” and ½” deep in each pass. Other than those stall outs, I am very happy with that router. Shortly after I bought the PantoRouter with the Bosch 1617 EVS router, I bought a used Bosch 1617 EVSSPK kit at a small woodworking business closure auction for $65. That kit was missing the sub-base for the plunge base, the ½” collet, the collet wrenches, and the plastic chip deflectors. The plunge depth stop on the plunge base was bent, the thumbscrew on the plunge depth lock was apparently replaced with a hex head screw, and the previous owner had partially ground away the plastic that helps to prevent the router from being turned on accidentally. Replacing the sub-base for the plunge base, the ½” collet, and the collet wrenches with new parts approximately doubled the cost of this used router kit. During Amazon’s recent sale on the Bosch 1617 EVSSPK kit, I bought a new Bosch 1617 EVSSPK kit, thinking that I could use the router motor from this kit as an emergency spare for the router in the PantoRouter, should that router motor fail in the next few years (the ground away plastic surrounding the power switch on the used router could lead to safety concerns when used in the PantoRouter). Unlike some of the recent reviewers of this kit, I received a new router – the router has a few minor blemishes in the metal portions of the router, but nothing that affects performance. Out of the box, the chip shield for the plunge base had a roughly ½” long crack on one side, as shown in the closeup picture. The depth adjustment for the fixed base worked smoothly, so I put a ½” wide two flute spiral bit into the router, set the depth of cut to 9/16”, and made a test cut in red oak. The router has plenty of power to make that cut. However, as seen at the left of the close up picture, the bottom of the cut was not perfectly smooth – there are visible lines at the bottom of the cut, possibly a few 1/1000 of an inch deep, suggesting that something in the router may have been flexing during the cut. I saw the same visible lines at the bottom of the cut when using the plunge base. The depth of the plunging action is shorter by possibly an inch compared with the plunging action of my 34 year old Bosch 1611 EVS dedicated plunge router and my Bosch 1619 EVS dedicated plunge router. The plunging action of the new Bosch 1617 EVS plunge router base is rough compared to the plunging action of my two dedicated plunge routers, and the plunge base that came with the used Bosch 1617 EVS kit. The plunging action will sometimes not auto-release at the bottom of the cut to pull the router bit up without upward pressure applied to the handles. The rubber boot that covers the right plunge rod will often bow to the right during a plunge (this bowing is visible in the attached pictures). I am not sure if the rougher than expected plunging action is due to insufficient lubricant, a problem with the right side rubber boot, the 22F temperature in the shop (the plunge action in the other routers seemed to work fine at this temperature), or this is expected plunging behavior when the router is new. The handles on the plunge base provide good control of the router in operation and when turning on the router. I have mixed feelings about the round knobs on the fixed base of the kit. The round knobs seem to provide decent control of the router when in use, but when switching the router on with the router not in contact with a board, the round handles do not provide a lot of control. As the router’s motor has a soft start feature, and the position of the on-off switch does not change position at different depths of cut, the opportunity for losing control of the router when switching the router on is likely low. Many of the older Porter Cable fixed base routers in the 2 ¼ HP and lower range also used round knobs for handles, but the position of the on-off switch changes as the depth of cut changes with those routers, so the risk of losing control of those routers when turning them on is a bit higher than with this router kit. For fixed base routers, I prefer the Milwaukee body-grip routers that allow firmly cradling the router body with one hand while the other hand activates the power switch – the current versions of those body-grip routers are manufactured in China, while this router is assembled in Mexico. D-handle routers, with the power switch integrated into one handle, also offer much more control than do the round handles on the fixed base in this router kit. The plunge base in this router kit works with the Bosch RA1054 deluxe router edge guide that I bought earlier this year to use with my 34 year old Bosch 1611 EVS router (I did not test the edge guide with the fixed base). The thumbscrews that came with that edge guide, which work perfectly with my 1611 EVS router, also work in the plunge base for this kit – that is an impressive dedication to product compatibility. I installed the plunge base components from the Bosch RA1173AT dust extraction kit in the plunge base. A Festool dust extractor was able to directly connect to that additional cost component, and likely collected 95%+ of the saw dust when I repeated the 9/16” depth of cut test in red oak with the ½” wide spiral router bit. It would be nice if that dust extraction kit were included with this router kit, but not if including those parts raised the purchase cost by the cost of that kit (roughly $35).
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Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2025 by Charles Hooper Charles Hooper
Style: Industrial
Got this to set up a benchtop router as an upgrade from using an 18v Makita router. Couldn't be more impressed. Rock solid, scary powerful, adjusts easily.
Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2025 by Dale Eva
Style: Industrial
Working great. Not all bits will fit this router.
Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2025 by Gump