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[EddyCurrent]

Not recommending, just looking for relatively low budget machine design that gets near your spec.

self build
http://frankieflood.blogspot.co.uk/2...rp-router.html

ready built
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CNC-Machin...item3f39fa81c3
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CNC-Router...item3f3d30606b

[JAZZCNC]

First What do you call a small budget.?. . . . Small down south can be large up north.?

[RobL]

It's hard to pin down an exact figure. My budgets are usually specified as "as little as possible", so it's a moving target for me really.

I'd say at this stage, a machine that could handle perhaps 4x4' for under £2K would maybe be something to maybe consider. Those ebay links above for large beds at around £7.5k are really interesting thoguh.

I think if we were going to do a job which involved that level of CNC cutting cost then there would maybe be a case for going for it at that point, but again, I think having experience and proven benefit from a smaller/cheaper in-house machine would be good ahead of that.

The other thing is we all design on Macs here. I currently run the vinyl cutting direct from Adobe Illustrator with a plug-in, but from the limited searching I've done so far it looks like it's PC based all the way for CNC operation?

Anyway, all the input here has been really good so far - it's exactly stuff like those ebay links that help to see what's possible for the money, so thanks for that!