[gevannos]

Hi all

New here and thought I'd add my 2 cents. I have a shopbot and have had it now for almost 2 years and love it.

Assembly is not all that difficult. I built my own table from the plans they provided (steel) and had that ready for the machine assembly. I allowed 2 days for assembly and tuning. I had a couple of friends over and we took our time and really got to learn the nuts and bolts of it.

We probably could have done it in 1 day then some tuning time, but we were shooting the breaze as well.

It went together exactly as the detailed instructions claimed with no guess work needed. The wiring went well and actually tuning it up only took about an hour.

By Sunday afternoon we were carving our kids names in some plywood.

If you are handy with cad/cam then you should be able to be doing what you are intending to do in less than a month (part time) but the learning never ends.

I use mine to cut boat kits for some boat designers as well as many household items (pantry shelves, etc.) and boat parts for my business.

In almost 2 years I have not had to do a single repair.

Just my 2 cents.

Eric