Quote Originally Posted by m_c View Post
That looks like a nice little machine, but I'm needing something that can handle metre long lumps of beech.
If it's long, narrow bits of beech you have in mind, like guitar necks for example, then taking that entire fixed gantry and putting it on rails might let you build a machine with a very stiff Z axis, though you might need control software that can do auto-squaring on two axes at once.