Jazz,

That is a fantastic amount of useful info there, so many thanks.

Ref the speed, I meant that if a machine requires multiple passes as it can't cut too deeply per pass and takes even a week per kit instead of a say a day, would present no issue as the numbers involved would not require one a week even for sure.

So, how much would it be approximately for a machine like yours?

What sort of lead time would there be in building and installing?

Where are you based for outsourcing my kit production?!?!

I have a handful of people already interested currently and the project is not even officially live yet, but I really need to get out on the boat once this lockdown eases, thrash it around and get a load of videos out there showing what it is capable of - then I can gauge the level of interest.

It is the initial drawing and cutting that is quite tedious and hard in a home workshop - also would speed things up for me if people want a part built kit to get on with the finishing etc.

So this is all about me planning ahead at the moment so any ideas will be super helpful for my roadmap - I don't want to suddenly get the first half dozen orders (I wish!) land and not be able to fulfil them!

I'll get on with importing some example sheets into FreeCAD and see how things progress on that front so I can see how feasible that end is for me.