Home Shop: Mill, Router or both?

[biomed_eng]

In your home shop:

Do you have a mill, router or both?

If you care to comment, please explain why.

[biomed_eng]

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]

Most routers are not rigid enough to handle metals like a mill.

[Geetar-ist]

I have several routers, only drwback is that as yet... none of them are CNC

Manual operation only !

[Kipper]

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 Once the mill is finished then it can make the router...Only problem I see is always wanting to make things better :shrug:

[Drakkn]

I have several hand held routers but no cnc,however I will be building my own soon as I have the solsylva plans

[Loonscall]

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]

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.