Pin ItMy CNC journey started by accident. My wife had been hand painting crafts on wood purchased from a vendor. I had a scroll saw in the garage and said “I can cut some of those to save you some money.” Before long I was spending spare time cutting her shapes out of Baltic birch ply.
Prior to Valentine’s Day, my wife developed a new product – hearts cut out of ¾ inch pine. I set up a router table and used templates with a bearing guide bit. That worked fairly well but seemed to have a guaranteed fifteen percent failure rate. Plus having a half inch bit spinning that close to your fingers is not fun.
So, I decided to visit a friend’s woodshop for some advice. He introduced me to CNC machines, and after binge-watching tons of videos, I finally took the plunge and ordered the Millright Carve King 2.
One of the things that sold me on the Millright Carve King 2 was its sturdy construction with threaded rods to move the router head instead of belts. It just felt more reliable to me!
Millright makes these to order so it took a little time to get it. I cleared a table in my office and went to work assembling the machine.
It took a couple of days to get it together. The instructions were easy enough to follow. Millright offers good support via email. They also have a very informative forum.
Once the Carve King was all together we moved it to the garage and gave it a spin.
I ended up choosing to go with 1/8″ bits to go with the products we were designing and we started going from there!
We had no idea what this was going to turn into!
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