Greetings from Nottinghamshire

[Clive S]

I have been looking at a number of posts on this website and others and estimate that a cnc machine is going to be £1500 plus just for the parts. I have no real desire to build the machine, so I had been looking at commercially marketed machines too.

Welcome to the forum Steve. I would be careful of buying any stuff until you have a design sorted out as that is one of the biggest mistakes people make as the plan will evolve and change over time. Also don't buy any electronic kits and they are never matched or correct.

There are one or two people on the forum that do build bespoke machines and usually to much higher quality than you can get for the same money. Good luck with whichever way you decide to go.

[Stressedwoodman]

Clive, Thanks for the words of wisdom. I was only going to purchase the rails and the ball screws. Which will be the same for what design style I chose.

[Stressedwoodman]

Can somebody give me a link/picture to some examples of the build quality of these "bespoke" machines, to give me an idea of what my potential diy effort will be up against.

[mekanik]

I like this one
/threads/9694-Hello-from-Slovenia-first-time-CNC-builder
Dean(JAZZCNC) had input on this one so can't go wrong if you follow his lead.
Mike

[JAZZCNC]

Can somebody give me a link/picture to some examples of the build quality of these "bespoke" machines, to give me an idea of what my potential diy effort will be up against.

Here you go one designed just for cutting wood and light aluminium work.

[Clive S]

Here you go one designed just for cutting wood and light aluminium work.

Nice paint job how about a pic. of the control box

[JAZZCNC]

Nice paint job how about a pic. of the control box

Here you Go.!

[Stressedwoodman]

Just starting to collect all the essential bits (linear bearings etc). I am just going around (again) if it's more economic to get the hgr20 rails in the uk. I was going to get the rails from " cnc4you" but have questioned if there hgr20 rails are Hiwin, or a patent part, still waiting an answer. Does anyone know if they are, and if not a uk stockist I can get a quote off.

btw - just getting my head around importing all the standard parts into NX, so I can post my machine design, for your critic.