Originally Posted by miljnor I agree with DL It can be done, but, don't quite your day job! This is my suggestion to every startup out there. It will be alot of hours and hopefully your single because it may get you divorced 
I started with a CNC lathe and a Manual mill, kinda backwards to most people, but it worked for me. I was only able to survive without the cnc mill for about 6 months. When you go for the financing you have to make the big money to stay alive. So CNC it was!
I would definitely go the garage route with the DIY style CNC if I had to do it over. Without the payments of shop rent and Machine payment you tend to make sooooooo much more money (usually sucked up by tooling cost ) but you can also take a break if things aren't going well (this is why you keep the day job!).
You can quit the day job and get a shop when you have wrangled so much work you can't keep up with it. but until then its the garage!
Another big recomendation is to make your own product because in the end a job shop is a glorified employee thats easy to fire! |
true I would like to make my own product. That would be ideal.