Germany
The cheapest way into almost every family — and the least likely to tell you what you are buying
Einhell is the price floor of this site. A plunge router at €57, a lathe at €155, a band saw at €160, a pillar drill at €205 — in every family it occupies, it is the cheapest entry that is still a real machine rather than a toy.
Specifications are frequently missing. The TC-WW 1000/1 lathe publishes no swing, no center distance, no motor rating and no spindle thread — four numbers that between them define what a lathe can do. The TC-RO 1155 E router does not state its collet size, which is the only specification that decides which bits fit.
We report those gaps rather than filling them from a similar model, and it means several Einhell reviews on this site are shorter than we would like.
Two listings carry no EAN. Without a barcode we cannot look a product up on the other five Amazon stores, so we cannot tell a French or Italian reader whether it is sold there. Those products get a German reference and a local search everywhere else.
Buy Einhell to find out whether you want the machine at all. Several people reading this will use a €57 router twice a year for a decade and never need better, and that is a perfectly good outcome. What Einhell does not do is publish enough for you to compare it properly before you commit.
450 W · 5 speeds to 2,650 min⁻¹ · 50 mm (1.97 in) depth · €115
A €115 pillar drill that publishes its depth, its speed range and its chuck capacity — and states all three plainly.
Best for: Shelf pins, dowels and hardware holes — accurate shallow drilling on a small bench
630 W · 60 mm (2.36 in) depth · 16 mm (0.63 in) capacity
A pillar drill that states its drilling depth and its maximum bit size — and is nearly twice the price in Britain as in Germany.
Best for: Repeat drilling to a set depth — shelf pins, dowel holes, hardware
Plunge router · €57 in Germany
A plunge router for the price of two good bits. It is the cheapest way to find out whether you want a router at all.
Best for: Finding out whether a router earns a place in your workshop before spending properly
≈ $160
Tool-free blade change · ball-bearing guides
The most consistently priced saw on this page — around €160 to €175 everywhere in Europe — with ball-bearing guides at that money.
Best for: A first band saw, where the ability to change blades quickly matters more than capacity
Einhell · 245 class · €264 in Germany
A bigger Einhell than the 200/1 at about €100 more — and a listing that says almost nothing about what the extra buys.
Best for: A buyer who has confirmed the capacities with Einhell and wants the larger frame
1,800 W · sliding · dual bevel
A sliding dual-bevel saw for the price of a fixed single-bevel one — sold, as far as we can verify, only under a German reference.
Best for: A German buyer who wants dual bevel and a slide without paying for either
1,500 W · 204 mm (8.03 in) wide · 3 mm (0.12 in) cut · aluminum table
The only planer here that publishes how much it takes off in one pass — 3 mm (0.12 in) surfacing, 2 mm (0.08 in) thicknessing — and the most evenly priced across Europe.
Best for: Smaller stock — battens, rails, small beams — where 204 mm (8.03 in) is enough
250 mm (9.84 in) · 2,000 W · 85 mm (3.35 in) cut
The cheapest way into a real table saw, and honest about what that buys — a big blade, a big cut, and a fence you will end up improving.
Best for: A first table saw for occasional sheet and softwood work, where the alternative is no table saw at all
2,200 W · 80 mm (3.15 in) at 90° · Ø 254 mm (10 in) · stand included
A €171 table saw that cuts 10 mm (0.39 in) deeper than the Bosch above at a quarter of the price — in a plastic housing, on a stand, with everything stated.
Best for: A first table saw in a home workshop, used occasionally rather than daily
Belt and disc · bench · €111
The cheapest belt-and-disc combination here, and the machine that stops you sanding curves by hand.
Best for: Sanding to a line on small parts, where hand sanding is slow and imprecise
≈ $360
Entry lathe · €155 in Germany
The cheapest full-size wood lathe here, and the one that most clearly needs bolting down before it is any good.
Best for: A first lathe for spindle work — chair legs, tool handles, stair spindles
≈ $490
1,200 W · 165 mm (6.50 in) · two 1 m (3 ft) rails included
A plunge saw with two meters of aluminum rail for €153 — and no barcode, so we cannot tell you whether it is sold in your country.
Best for: Breaking down sheet goods occasionally, in Germany, on a small budget
Wet and dry · automatic start
A wet-and-dry workshop vacuum with tool-triggered start, at a third of the price of the professional machines here.
Best for: General workshop cleanup and light sanding extraction on a budget
≈ $450
2 × 18 V · 30 L stainless · Ø 36 mm (1.42 in) hose · bare tool
A cordless wet and dry vacuum with a 30 liter stainless drum — the machine that goes to the dust rather than waiting for it.
Best for: Site and garage clean-up, and extraction at small tool ports away from a socket
≈ $490
Prices quoted in these summaries are dated readings. The live price is shown next to each product.
