View Full Version : Home Shop: Mill, Router or both?


biomed_eng
10-09-2006, 12:53 AM
In your home shop:

Do you have a mill, router or both?

If you care to comment, please explain why.

biomed_eng
10-09-2006, 12:59 AM
Right now I have neither at my home. I am planning on getting my retrofitted Bridgeport Series 1 to my home in a couple months.

I do want a custom built router and I will use my mill to make parts for the router.

The router will cut large parts out of foam/renshape/wood, while the mill will do the metal parts.

SyilAmerica
10-09-2006, 11:15 PM
Most routers are not rigid enough to handle metals like a mill.

Geetar-ist
10-10-2006, 12:52 PM
I have several routers, only drwback is that as yet... none of them are CNC ;)

Manual operation only !

Kipper
10-10-2006, 04:43 PM
I'm in the middle of converting my mill and so far just have the Y axis under PC control....and it's way better than winding the handle :D Once the mill is finished then it can make the router...Only problem I see is always wanting to make things better :shrug:

Drakkn
10-14-2006, 02:57 PM
I have several hand held routers but no cnc,however I will be building my own soon as I have the solsylva plans

Loonscall
10-16-2006, 03:30 PM
I have a cnc router (camtech Z7), but am having a hard time getting things running. Looking to do 3d relief work. Any suggestions are welcome

thkoutsidthebox
12-15-2006, 09:18 AM
Im building my first cnc wood router at the moment. No mill. Because the wood router is suitable for what I want to do and AFIK a mill is not. Carving large flat areas, up to 8'x8'. Maybe someday I will get a mill aswell but I dont see a need for one at the moment.