Spalted Walt wrote in
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knuttle wrote:


The average woodworker is more in likely to run into the need cut a
4' X 8' piece of ply wood than to have a need for a machine to cut
the complicated cuts shown in the videos.

I Agree.



For the sake of argument, I'll take a contrary viewpoint. One of the
reasons our shapes tend to be square and based upon squares is that
they're easy to make. A circular saw wants to cut straight, it just
needs a little help. Jigsaws need care to cut curves nicely and bandsaws
usually have limited throat clearance.

CNC lets the machine handle fancy and complicated cuts, so it might
unlock the creativity of the guy using the machine. Now that he's got a
machine that will do perpendicular curved cuts, he'll be more likely to
do that fancy cutout and now the desk he's building looks something like
the great Chicago Bean. (Maybe it even opens up, like an old roll top.)
It's not that he can't do it with traditional tools, it's that the CNC
has taken some of the frustration and tedium out of it.

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