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Everybody's thoughts on this CNC. All I'm looking for is to be able to put my logo on some of my turkey calls. I think it should be plenty big enough for the job. :confused::confused:
 
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No idea, but it looks cool. I'm sure you probably don't want one with a EU plug, though. Why not laser engrave? I see the 1W NEJE is on sale at $67.50. Just a thought. The CNC would be fun to play with, though.

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Michael
 
I thought about the laser engraver. Still undecided. Either one will work I think. The only thing that is making me look harder at the cnc is I do a lots of acrylic.
 
liljohn1368 said:
I thought about the laser engraver. Still undecided. Either one will work I think. The only thing that is making me look harder at the cnc is I do a lots of acrylic.
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Ah, well, that would be a deal breaker on the 1W laser. How much adjustment does the CNC have? Could you get something as big as a call into it and adjust the Z axis? Will have to check out some reviews of it--I can think of many uses.
 
Personally, it looks like a toy...literally. And at the price...

I would avoid anything foreign made without US support. Some of the Chinese machines are ok, but the support is not available in most cases.
There are a lot of problems that people have.
You need to look at resolution, software for design and control, interface, feed and plunge max., etc. It is also metric and the DOC is probably very shallow. That's where the resolution will be important. It will have to make several passes to get to final depth and will not repeat the tool path.

IMO, entry level machines start around the $2500.00 mark.
Then there is the tooling and software to consider.
There is no such thing as inexpensive in cnc.

I would definitely pass on it.
 
I would have to agree that it looks like a bit of a toy. If you want to engrave round objects, you really should have a rotary axis. This would only engrave a narrow area at best on a round object, perhaps even less than a laser. You also would be limited with the software. There are many advantages of commercial CNC software which are not readily useable on this without significant modification. Perhaps something to get your feet wet in CNC and learn what you might really need. I'm sure it will be of some use, just not very versatile.
 
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