My shop built idiosyncratic cnc machine has likely made the difference between me continuing to make a living making small wood items, and having to have found other work, which in my 60's after 40 years of the former, would have been a real drag. It's also kept woodworking fun and new.
When I get it right, it's like a flawless, complaint-less employee (though a poor conversationalist) that does the hardest manual part of a complex job, freeing me to simultaneously do more fun stuff, like design new items, figure out new and better ways to make them more cleanly and quickly, resaw nearly finished items off backer strips 7 at a time, and dip them into a vat of finish to see the grains and colors explode. It turns me into a one-man band.
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