BuyerZone users' CNC router requirements

We ask users of our quote request service to describe their CNC router purchasing requirements in detail so the vendors we match them to can provide customized information in response. Now we're sharing these buyer requirements with you.

We hope these user comments help you get a sense of what types of CNC routers other users are choosing and what considerations are important to the average buyer. Take a look and you'll probably see some responses that are relevant to your business.

BuyerZone user comments: CNC router purchasing requirements

"Will be used for cutting out woodshapes and then carving (engraving)alph/numeric words."
-- Buyer, Retail, Palm Harbor, FL

"We manufacture wooden bee hives. The largest panel is 9 3/4" X 20" x 3/4". There are four panels to a box. Each end is fingerjointed with a 3/4" fingerjoint spaced by 3/4" On the face of each panel is hand hold machined into the face. Would like to be able to place company logo on the box."
-- Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Stanwood, WA

"Would like to have tool bank and at least 9 inches of clearance at the gantry."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Construction/General Contracting, South Berwick, ME

"Experienced woodworker but new to CNC. Looking for a system that will grow with my experience. Initial low level commercialization, but hope to expand in the future. Want tool to pay for itself within 2 years."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Manufacturing, Flower Mound, TX

"Looking for a smaller, yes cheap, cnc I can use for reproducing carvings, parts and smaller projects for my small shop. I do know some bsasc skills for running a cnc but overall fairly new to how to run them. I am looking for something that is simple to use but reliable also."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Manufacturing, West Salem, WI

"I would like to build and make solid body guitars and bodys."
-- Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Hazard, KY

"Cutting aluminum skinned foam up to 3" thick. 4'x8' bed min."
-- Buyer, Restaurant, Kansas, KS

"Milling hand holds for boxes, box joints and rabbits. drilling holes."
-- Educator, Education, Polk, NE

"I need an automated fabric cutting machine, small, short run production."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Manufacturing, Golden, CO

"Small projet maybe 2' x4' I don't have alot of extra area in the shop for one."
-- Educator, Education, Mukilteo, WA

"Cut designs from sheet copper and steel approx 24-26 guage."
-- Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Hilo, HI

"We are looking to replace the router spindle with a grinding spindle and do a surface gring on a 1/4" thick piece of glass, 40" wide x 76" long."
-- Engineer/Programmer, Other Business Services, Chandler, AZ

"I would like to start a business and need a cnc router."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Manufacturing, Baldwin Park, CA

"Looking for a 4x8 bed router that will cut light metals and also do engraving on plastic and acrylic."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Manufacturing, Hawthorne, CA

"I would like to do inlay work on the guitar's bodies and necks. also carving figures / figurines in the guitars."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Advertising/Marketing/PR, Las Cruces, NM

"1ll soft wood and up to 3inches thick hard wood."
-- Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Superior, WI

"Need a cnc to do quick rough out on soft stone e.g. limestone soapstone andicite these stones can be worked with wood working tools but diamond tooling with water last longer. accuracy +/- .01 only."
-- Buyer, Manufacturing, Seattle, WA

"Cnc routing machine 4 x 4 or 8 x 4 table, that would work with dxf files. i need to cut shapes made out of wood up to 1/2" thick."
-- Office Manager, Manufacturing, Prescott Valley, AZ

"Unsure, hoping to be able to mass produce extremely fine woodworking at a much quicker pace. a cnc that can handle a 4 by 8 piece of plywood or at least half that size would be nice."
-- Buyer, Construction/General Contracting, Raleigh, NC

"I have a small sign business and do a lot of digital printing and vinyl cutting for a large convience store chain. I'm looking at being able to reproduce quanities of ovals and other objects cut from acrylic, wood, foam board and possibly aluminum. I would need to use sheets of materials up to 4'x8. I'm an old carpenter/cabinet maker and have used a router many times, but have no knowledge of this machine or how to use it."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Manufacturing, Claysburg, PA

"This is not for a major woodworking operation-a very small specialty woodworker looking to handled doors and other wood craving and add to retirement income."
-- Buyer, Non-Profit, Lakeside, AZ

"We need a machine that will allow us to cut custom shaped vinyl (PVC) records. It would be nice if the equipment would allow etching/engraving to a depth of .002 +/-."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Manufacturing, Henderson, NV

"Im looking for a machine that will make tendons in 1.25" wide material at with therr different set up one at a 45 degree one at a 30 degree and one at custom degree. In."
-- General Manager, Construction/General Contracting, Woodstock, GA

"Milling straight and curved .5" aluminum jig plates .076 wide by .042 deep and .125 wide by .096 deep."
-- Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Waukesha, WI

"Need 5'x10' table , with bit holder and at least 8" of clearance."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Construction/General Contracting, South Berwick, ME

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