Buying Expensive Stuff

As we continue on our journey, we have decided to make our first major equipment purchase. We bought a Cricut a few weeks ago (which I love, by the way), but it’s not a really big investment. It was time for us to step up, so here goes.

Nearly all the wood items you see on our website currently, have been cut by my husband. He uses a scroll saw for the intricate designs. Fortunately he loves working with wood and the tools that go with it. However, all that cutting is time consuming and tedious. If we are going to move forward, we need something that can take some of the work off of him. So (drum roll please), we purchased a CNC machine.

If you’re not familiar with a CNC, it’s a type of computerized router. You put your designs in a CAD program and the CNC cuts out whatever you’ve designed. It has it’s limits, and there is a lot to learn, but we are excited (and a little scared) to try something new. It should be here next week. It will arrive unassembled, so it should be loads of fun from the get go. I’ll let you know how it goes.