Hi everyone, joined the forum having been reading up on CNC and just getting more and more lost. Do I buy a ready made machine from the bay? Or do I build?? I am pretty handy with tools so am tempted to start by building a simple 3 axis and see how I get on. Would like to use this to engrave brass plates and mild steel, create small items in brass and stainless and perspex. Budget of course is limited as always, I am thinking to try to keep below 1k.. One thing that really frustrates me is the need to use a parallel port as I got rid of those old PCs years ago. Very annoying