Good CNC Router For Making Guitar Bodies?

[SCzEngrgGroup]

A friend of mine is interested in making bodies (and later necks) for electric basses. Can anyone recommend good machines for doing this? Small, quality routers (at an affordable hobbyist price - i.e. under US$2K) seem hard to find....

Regards,
Ray L.

[ger21]

Small, quality routers (at an affordable hobbyist price - i.e. under US$2K) seem hard to find....

They don't even exist.

Ideally, you'd want a 24x36 size machine, and any good quality machine in that size will cost at least $4K-$5K. The only cheap option is to build.

You rarely see anyone posting here who's purchased a machine like that. I think the main reason is cost.

[luthier]

I have a k2 2514 that I bought on Ebay for around 1500. With a prewired set of motors and controllers from an internet vendor, that brought the price up to about 2K. I'm pretty happy with it after a year of using it. It's not a speed demon, but gets the job done pretty accurately.
I'd love to have a 36" length to do bolt on electric necks without carving on an angle or having to reindex them.

[dddaaarrr]

Check out the romaxx wd-1 at RomaxxCNC.com : Products & Purchases

Around 4K, but an excellent machine for guitars.

[ihavenofish]

the xzero viper will do guitars very well. price will be between 3k and 4k complete depending on what options you choose. these arent turnkey though, its a partly assembled box of parts.

[RaulR84]

I am in the same boat man, I have looked for a LONG time and found this rockler cnc shark for about $2,600ish and think its the most affordable one out there but its nothing in a professional level and very basic. I am still trying to get more info on it. check it out