Thank you A Camera,

I genuinely and sincerely appreciate your comments.

I believe that i am reasonably astute, have a good all round working knowledge of many things, master of none, jack of all trades sort.

I did feel that i was on the wrong site, joined the wrong forum and thought and believe that there are clearly 2 schools of thought.

One leaning heavily to the industrial build type and the other, like me, the hobby guy.

I had decided to stay, to also stay polite whatever was inferred and follow my path, because that's the type of machine I want to build.

It may have issues, issues i may not be able to address and hence my reason for being here.

I do hope that there is a place for everyone and hence me starting the post.

Why should i have to go to an American site? I was really pleased when i stumbled across this site, a UK site!

People talking metric!

All the main woodworking sites are US based and their workshops are bigger than our houses!

So, as an appeal to all, from me, I need help, with my type of build!

I keep apologising for my type of machine, but for many, its a good build and is what they consider to be an advanced build with the Linear rails and bearing blocks. (Whoo!)

No, it won't do a lot of things and i don't think i will ever get passed the 2.5D stage of milling, but that is all I ever aspired to

I love woodworking, its a hobby, an escape.

I want to make some nice signs etc, I don't have the skills to make these with a handheld router and thought i nice little milling machine is a great addition to my workshop.

But it is only that, an addition.

This CNC machine will still end up being the most expensive single piece of kit and in workshop and i have a lot of kit!

Oh, well besides my solid Ash workbench, which i will post a picture of later on.

It cost me £600 just for the timber, but now it's built, probably worth well over 3K - it is rather lovely!!

WoodKnot