Edges, joints & profiles · review
A professional plunge router that ships with the parallel fence, the template guide adapter and the wrench — the parts usually sold separately.
The end of it The complete professional router. Buy it in Britain if you can — the price gap across Europe is €160.
Every figure is a manufacturer specification, read off the listing itself, and the judgments are ours — drawn from how the specification behaves in this class of machine and from what long-term owners consistently report. Where a figure is missing, we say so rather than fill it in.
A plunge router with electronic speed control, supplied with a parallel fence with fine adjustment, a template guide adapter, a collet and a 19 mm (0.75 in) wrench. Part number 0601626001. Bosch does not publish the motor rating, collet capacity or speed range on this listing.
The accessories listed here are not padding. A fine-adjust parallel fence and a template guide adapter are the two things that turn a router from a freehand tool into a precise one, and buying them separately typically costs a meaningful fraction of the router.
A router bit’s danger and its cut quality both follow rim speed, not motor speed. A 12 mm (0.47 in) straight bit at 24,000 rpm and a 50 mm (1.97 in) panel-raising bit at 24,000 rpm are not doing the same thing: the rim of the large bit is traveling several times faster, which burns the timber, loads the bearing and — on a bit not rated for it — is how they come apart.
Large-diameter bits must be run slower. That is what electronic speed control is for, and it is the reason a variable-speed router is not a convenience but a requirement once you own bits over about 40 mm (1.57 in).
The “CE” in the name is Bosch’s designation for electronic speed control, which is what makes running a large bit slowly possible.
€307 in Britain, €370 in Germany and France, €411 in Italy, €465 in Spain. Same reference, same barcode. Britain being the cheapest is unusual and worth acting on.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-08-12. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Type | Plunge router, electronic speed control (CE) |
|---|---|
| Supplied with | Parallel fence with fine adjustment, template guide adapter, collet, 19 mm (0.75 in) wrench |
| Part number | 0601626001 |
| Amazon reference | B00IZ8RS5Y (identical on 6 markets) |
| EAN | 3165140690065 |
Because routing a groove to a line is an iterative process: cut, measure, nudge the fence, cut again. A fence you nudge by tapping is a coarse instrument; one with a threaded fine adjustment moves in tenths of a millimeter and repeats. It is the difference between three passes and eight.
It lets you fit a guide bush — a collar around the bit that runs against a template, so the router follows a shape you have already made. Almost all jig work depends on it, and it is often a separate purchase.
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7.5/ 10
The complete professional router. Buy it in Britain if you can — the price gap across Europe is €160.
A workshop that wants a professional router working properly on day one
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