Google is your friend. Do a search on "steel rule die" and educate
yourself.

Then you can send me all the money you save, shucks I will be tickled if you
send me half the money you save.

--
Roger Shoaf
If you are not part of the solution, you are not dissolved in the solvent.

"Keith Walker" wrote in message
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Roger

Low power desktop lasers cost around ~$10k.
To make a steel rule die with multiple curvatures would cost more.

Keith Walker

Roger Shoaf wrote:
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So would a steel rule die. Lasers are neat tools but each tool has its
drawbacks. Lasers are expensive. Not an issue if you are putting
serial
numbers on fine diamonds, or making 100,000 high speed disk drives, but
when
you are making airplane models cost becomes a real issue. Think about
this,
if one set of plastic cutouts is cut to a precision of +-.001" and then
a
master model maker glues it together by hand is the end result going to
be a
whole lot different than the same person working with parts that are
+-.010"?

There are some places where .0001 matters, and there are places where it
does not. Keep that in mind and you will not go nuts.