Rob Keeble
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Well i certainly got my spare time taken care of for a long time to come, now this kit arrived.
Sorry for the poor pic, no light in that area of living room and its a dark overcast day here today.
Other evening i picked up some 2x4s to make a temp table for it.
Have not yet started in that project.
My first impressions were the kit exceeds my expectations.
You see photographs even videos but i say it again the online world gives you zero human feedback like the real deal.
I am once again amazed at the components of this kit.
The rails are heavy aluminum. Don't look that way in the images because its a photo but man hold one and you realize this is not a joke.
Same goes for the base plate metal work.
I would like to thank those of you that bought Shapeoko in the early days. You permitted this company (Carbide 3D) to evolve and evolve the offering they most definitely have.
I the latest unit comes with cable dragchain and the cables already inserted along with limit switches and beefy brackets for them.
I asked for a Makita router as part of the free thanksgiving deal and happy to say they obliged. Was only expecting the router motor but it came as a full trim router with base and edge routing accessory looks like a nice router to boot.
Now i got to get cracking on the table.
Did have a couple of bits missing but i presume they will sort that out once they process my email. Everything else was well packed to survive FedEx shipping to Canada.
The kit today comes with most of the unit assembled into sub assemblies so way different to the folks that first got on board.
Really looking forward to seeing what i can do with this unit.
If my brain lets me get to a competency level i am happy with then i will look at selling it and buying a unit like Leo has but i saw this as the training wheels we used to get on bicycles.lol
Will keep this post updated as to progress.
Sorry for the poor pic, no light in that area of living room and its a dark overcast day here today.
Other evening i picked up some 2x4s to make a temp table for it.
Have not yet started in that project.
My first impressions were the kit exceeds my expectations.
You see photographs even videos but i say it again the online world gives you zero human feedback like the real deal.
I am once again amazed at the components of this kit.
The rails are heavy aluminum. Don't look that way in the images because its a photo but man hold one and you realize this is not a joke.
Same goes for the base plate metal work.
I would like to thank those of you that bought Shapeoko in the early days. You permitted this company (Carbide 3D) to evolve and evolve the offering they most definitely have.
I the latest unit comes with cable dragchain and the cables already inserted along with limit switches and beefy brackets for them.
I asked for a Makita router as part of the free thanksgiving deal and happy to say they obliged. Was only expecting the router motor but it came as a full trim router with base and edge routing accessory looks like a nice router to boot.
Now i got to get cracking on the table.
Did have a couple of bits missing but i presume they will sort that out once they process my email. Everything else was well packed to survive FedEx shipping to Canada.
The kit today comes with most of the unit assembled into sub assemblies so way different to the folks that first got on board.
Really looking forward to seeing what i can do with this unit.
If my brain lets me get to a competency level i am happy with then i will look at selling it and buying a unit like Leo has but i saw this as the training wheels we used to get on bicycles.lol
Will keep this post updated as to progress.