Now by no means do I want to discourage you from purchasing your own CNC machine, I know I would want to cut my own art work out if I could. With that said though, have you looked into having your work created with rapidprototyping? There are several materials availiable in a veriety of different processes to create objects. Here at work I am the RP engineer that creates CAD models (using Unigraphics) to run on our Stereolithography machines. Depending on size and what you want the piece for it might be a good way to go. The one thing though it can get a bit costly (again depending on size) but if it is something you can sell or make dups off from it might be worth that. Other than that I personally don't have a recommendation for any CNC that will do what you want for the price. I am putting together a Industrial Hobbies CNC mill together right now and I would also eventually like to get into 4 axis machining but I have a bit of a learning curve yet to tackle with just learning how to machine in 3 axis. Hope this helps some.
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