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    Hi,

    My son trained as a goldsmith and he made his prototypes from hard carving wax and then sent them off to Birmingham to have vulcanised rubber moulds made. My thought is that wax would solve the dust problem and if it is messed up or just not right, then you can just recast the slab and redo it. Also, if that is all you are carving on the machine it could be quite lightweight, but I still would not advocate Chinese.
    Marchant Dice make lightweight machines that might be suitable for wax
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    I recall that wax was advocated to make CNC trial pieces, but nobody seems to do that now, probably because CAD is used more.
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    Just my two pennuth.

    Cheers,
    Rob

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