This assembly process is completely assanine!

[Earwigger]

Yah, I have so much more fun assembling the machine (and I never follow the instructions) than I do doing actual work with the machine that I am working on version 4.0:

Coming Soon: SON OF X-CARVE

SMALLER. STRONGER. FASTER. Thanks to the Halloween contest and my habit of collecting parts over many years of DIY CNC type machines, I will attempt to create a dedicated aluminum cutting x-carve. The base is made from commercial fixture laminate, the frame is from a single piece of makerslide bolted together with gusset plates to be dead on square and flat (will still resurface at some point. Anyhow, didn’t get very far yet because after tapping at least 100 holes in my lifetime, I finally…