Advice needed on purchasing.

[Boyan Silyavski]

For around 3000 spent you could DIY a very capable 600x900x200mm working area machine, sth like what i build for a friend 2 years ago. Of course size could be adjusted to your particular needs, what i am saying is just to have an idea of parts price per work space.

or for ~5000 sb can make that same machine for you


If you design in CAD the shape, it will carve it. Even if convex, it will project it on surface, and if you cleverly design the details it could not be a problem. Now- to carve it at every single place perpendicular to the face machine must be 5 Axis, which is not only much more expensive to do it properly but you need 5 axis CAD which is expensive if legally obtained. And a serious learning curve...

Adding 4rth axis to the machine / think of lathe inside the bed, along the length/ is cheaper and will solve the short distance curve. But will challenge you how to support the thing without vibrating. Anyways,still doable.

5th axis? Not that way. Then 4rth and 5th must be integrated on the head/where spindle is, not bed. In your case i mean.

I carve a lot of staff, so IMO 3mm is the perfect flat bottom depths for wood carvings. Looks deep enough, good enough and is generally my preferred depth and way to do it. That also to have in mind.


Now having that info rethink what you want and especially the designs of what you will cut. is it possible to split it in 3 separate parts? etc...


So IMO 3 axis machine could do what you want and longer than 1m machine is not needed.