Have been looking at the Hammer HNC myself and got quoted £3k excluding controller and software but including the basic 1KW spindle that Marius tested.

I already use Hammer's Planer Thicknesser / Felder dust extractor and they are both seriously good kit. The HNC weighs in at 85kgs so is substantial for a desktop.

Having recently converted my Wabeco mill to run on Centroid's Acorn with excellent results, that is my intended direction for the HNC - BUT, the 2.2KW spindle option (Teknomotor with ER25) I want to use comes out at £1,700 from Felder on top of the machine itself which is, ahem, not cheap to say the least.

What surprises me most is the use of small 2.8amp Nema 23 steppers with just 1.08Nm on leadscrews with the X axis using just 1 centrally mounted stepper and connected to a pair of leadscrews using 1 long toothed belt. They do claim a max feed speed of 6m/min (236ipm) however.

It's Austrian not Chinese but I am scratching my head.

Hope this helps and any further thoughts welcome