Wow! Thanks for that. Wasn't expecting someone to give me that much advice so quick. That's great!
Im going to be making a start on the project around April/may, so up until then I'm going to be keeping my eyes and ears open and probably asking lots of questions.

I will defo start to look at other materials for the build though as a lot of things I have read say the same about the MDF machiene's.

Just another quick question for now. What sort of price would I be looking at for a software package to get me started? As I know software can be really expensive.

Thanks Rob.