About BORA
BORA Tool is a brand of Affinity Tool Works, a tool manufacturer founded in 2006 and based in Troy, Michigan. The BORA lineup covers clamping (parallel clamps, auto-adjust clamps, dog clamps), straight edges and saw guides, and portable work support, including the Centipede line the brand added when it acquired Centipede Tool, LLC of Williamsburg, New Mexico and folded its work-stand designs into the BORA PortaMate product family.
The Centipede support system is the brand's signature product: a folding, multi-leg work platform built to hold benchtop tools and sheet goods without the setup time of sawhorses. Pro Tool Reviews tested the Centipede support system directly and highlighted its high load capacity and stability, noting that the design's many ground-contact points let a benchtop tool sit anywhere on the platform without the wobble of a simple four-leg stand. In our own testing on the DIYRated workbench roundup, the BORA Centipede stood out for folding to a compact, carryable size in seconds while still handling a full sheet of plywood.
Brand website: boratool.com
What BORA makes
BORA's range runs wider than the products we review. The lines we know best from our own testing are marked with a star:
Centipede work stands
folding multi-leg support platforms for sheet goods and benchtop tools — featured on DIYRated — featured on DIYRated
Parallel clamps
wide-jaw bar clamps rated up to 1,100 lb of clamping pressure
Clamp edge saw guides
straightedge guides for circular saws and routers
Roller stands & miter saw stands
material support stands for the workshop
Mobile bases
rolling bases for shop machinery
Pocket hole jigs & screws
joinery hardware and jigs
Why we recognized BORA
The DIYRated Top Brand recognition isn't paid for and can't be applied for. We award it to the brands whose products consistently stand out in our hands-on category reviews. BORA earned it on the strength of the products below, evaluated the same way every product on this site is: bought, put to work on real jobs, and judged on merit.
BORA products we rated highly
BORA Centipede CK15S 30-Inch Folding Work Table
A top pick in our workbench testing for jobsite use: laid with a sheet of plywood on top it provides a 4-by-8-foot work area, the exact footprint a cabinet, door, or full sheet of OSB needs. The 15-strut frame is rated for 6,000 lb total, folds to roughly 6 inches thick, and opens in about five seconds with a single squeeze of the center handle, replacing the sawhorses-and-plywood setup that's been a jobsite default for decades.
Read the 7 Best Workbenches of 2026 guide →What earned BORA the recognition
- Independently reviewed: Pro Tool Reviews tested the Centipede support system directly and found the multi-leg design stable enough to place a benchtop tool anywhere on the platform without wobble.
- A genuine 6,000 lb total capacity across 15 struts on the Centipede CK15S, engineered well beyond what a jobsite work platform typically needs.
- Folds to about 6 inches thick and opens in roughly five seconds, the fastest setup of any work platform we tested for the workbench roundup.
- A focused product range built around real jobsite problems: fast-folding work support, wide-jaw clamping, and straightedge saw guides, rather than a scattershot catalog.
- Built on the acquired Centipede Tool engineering under Affinity Tool Works, a tool manufacturer that has been in business since 2006.