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.