Cutting wooden letters and shapes - purchase help for a newbie please!

[irving2008]

Perfect sense... and a good application of CNC. Sounds like you have a good fledgling (or maybe even more so) business there and doing OK seemingly even with the recession. Clearly with more capability and therefore more product options at a lower works cost (time = money), a CNC machine of some description would make good sense and a smallish one to start would seem to fit the bill. I know others will always say buy the biggest you can because you don't want to limit yourself, and I tend to agree, but one has to cut one's cloth so to speak. My advice would be to look at how many letters you would buy in and what the delta between what it would cost you to make them (not forgetting your time is a cost) over the cost of buying in... what would the ROI on a £1500 investment be assuming that the equiment has a 4y life span and a resale asset value.

[kemo_2002]

wow -im not really sure about that, each letters costs roughly £1 to buy, its hard as im not sure what else and how much i will be selling when i expand, i had thought about selling blanks too, as i know that i have purchased them in the past so other people may also, i know a lot already do on here, but at the moment in only sell on ebay andthere are less sellers on there.

My main problem is I dont know what im looking for, i know what i want it to do, but not exactly the machine i need, and also the programme, my other half uses a program called 'xilog' but says its quite comfusing (and in italian!) and he thinks i would benefit in something easier to use, but something i can change fonts and size ect...