Our Recommendation: Bosch 2.25 HP Electronic Fixed-Base Router ... Similar to a fixed-base router, a trim router is a smaller tool best suited to cutting through thin pieces of wood or laminate.

Equipped with a rotating blade attached to a flat base, a router can be used to cut, trim, shape, and hollow out wood for any number of purposes. This includes rounding edges on trim and furniture ...

Wood routers are just one of the cool tools you didn't know you wanted until now. A trim router with a one-horsepower or lower motor is the smallest and least powerful of the bunch. However ...

The trend in power tools is to do more with less. Today's woodworkers are as likely to pick up a trim router to do a small job as they are to hoist a full-size router onto the workbench.