When choosing the right equipment for precision machining, makers and small workshop owners often face a critical decision: a desktop CNC machine or a traditional mill. Each type of machine has its ...

Perhaps a computer numerically controlled (CNC) lathe, mill, or even a laser cutter–anything that would add to the vocabulary of tools and techniques that we’re starting to build at home.

I have a decent wood shop at home ... that having a CNC mill would turn you into a no-experience-needed metal-cutting monster, you’d be sorely mistaken. Of course the machine is able to cut ...

Figure 2-6: Simulation of a dual rotary mechanism fastened to the table of a standard 3-axis CNC milling machine. Tool length offsets work the same way here as with any conventional 3-axis machine.