Quote Originally Posted by Kitwn View Post
CNC isn't really about bespoke, one-off items anyway. It takes many hours of thought and designing, experimenting and learning to make a single new widget. Then you make another one in ten minutes and a dozen more by lunchtime.

Kit
Bang Wrong there matey!
Your point is valid for any simple things which are reasonably easily made quite cheaply on manual machines, for expensive things which are horribly complex to machine manually, CNC is a very appropriate way to go, and lucrative too.