Oh, the possibilities!

[Brad_S.]

Dear Santa,
Could I please have one of these for Christmas?
http://www.carvewright.com/index.html

[Mooseherder]

Brad,  Too bad they are out of Stock right now.  :D

[oakiemac]

What a neat machine! I'm asking Santa for one also.

[scsmith42]

Man, that's sweet!

[Texas Ranger]

Sweet, yes, but not yet.  The machine is imported from China by a company here in Houston, Texas.  I have a use for such a machine, and visited with the company.  They are good folks to do business with, but the machine itself left me wondering.  They told me at the time that they had to put in about one day per machine after importing to put it into salable shape.  We then tested it on some wood I had brought with me.  White pine and oak.  There are two types of cutting that can be used, one a basic router bit, and the other a "raster" bit, or a very thin cutting bit that you might find in a dremel type tool.  The router bit did an excellent job in both woods, the raster bit left a fuzzy cut that had to have extensive work to complete the job. 

When asked about the fuzzy, one guy said no problem, he polished it down while sitting in front of the tv on evenings.

they then told me, when asked, that approximately one third of all pieces sold had been returned for rework under the warrentry.

I passed.

[Brad_S.]

That's the great thing about this forum, someone somewhere knows something about anything you post on here. 8)
After I made the post, I began to wonder if I shouldn't have as I was using the forum for free advertising for this product of which I know nothing about, but I thought it was so interesting that I knew others would probably like it too. I also began considering products I could use the machine for (egg and dart moulding, for example) and really started considering it. Thank you for the review to both ease my conscience about referring fellow FF members to an untested product and for putting a dose of reality into my schemes. :D

[Fla._Deadheader]

I've been wanting to do the carving thing for quite some time.

  My problem (?) is, how does a really dumb person learn the software to make the drawings necessary to feed into the computer that runs the machine ??

  I have tried to learn 4 different programs, and, never get anywhere. Each program states how easy it is to learn ???

[leweee]

Harold......next time in the book store. :P see if they have a copy of "CNC for Dummies" :D :D :D

[Fla._Deadheader]

  Book Stores ??? ???  In Espanol---maybe ???   :

[Texas Ranger]

The carve right machine program works very well, it's the machine I had problems with.  The program used a library of patterns that was quite extensive, you could also scan in patterns.  The only problem with a scan is, the machine reads the density of black as a depth indicator, so ya got to have some sort of method of correcting the shadings.

I though the machine interesting and really what I wanted, but the problems on a developmental machine turned me off.