You will be hard pressed to find a better machine for £1500. You will be at least £3000 for a uk based seller. I have bought stuff from chinese based ebay companies that claimed the product was being dispatched from a UK warehouse. I contacted them to make sure and I got a broken english email back, telling me not to worry and everything will be fine but they couldn't give me any answers to my questions. I was sceptical but ordered anyway and figured I would just pay the tax as I was sure it was coming from china. I felt silly when it turned up the next day delivered by the royal mail. Im not saying the laser is the same but it may be worth digging around a bit more before writing it off.

The laser I built cost at least £1500. If I had my time again I would buy the laser in your link and then "tart it up" as time goes by.

Lasers cutters/etchers are harder to build WELL than most people think, weight is extremly important and there is balance to achieve between speed weight and robustness. If the gantry is too heavy the belts will stretch and parts will vibrate as you move the head about cuttting at speed. You need an enclosure to take the smoke away and a moving table to focus the beam.

I am working on a moving table design with a canatilevered x-axis right now http://www.mycncuk.com/forums/genera...build-log.html

If anyone in scotland is looking to build a laser maybe we could build two or three together.