Any Sign Shops out there that have a cnc router do any work other than signs on their router? Jake
Posted by Dave Sherby (Member # 698) on :
I will as soon as I get mine installed. I will be cutting counter tops, making aluminum parts for a guy for automotive, making prototype parts for a flooring company, woodworking projects and more. There are a lot of things you can do to keep the router busy.
Posted by Joe Crumley (Member # 2307) on :
Jake,
I can only speak for myself but once a router found it's place in our shop, there wasn't much time for other kinds of work.
Since we aren't interested in high volume, our unit doesn't run all the time. Once it's finished with a job, we've got lots of assembly and painting.
If I had our router running all day, every day, the business wouldn't be much fun. So, a couple of hours of creative routing is plenty for me.
Posted by Jake Hamstra (Member # 2354) on :
Bump
Posted by Pete Payne (Member # 344) on :
hi jake, i know a guy who cuts scrolls and stuff out of mdf scraps and sells them at lumber yards, a company i think is called canshelf? who tyakes online orders for custom mdf shelving kits, another makes really nice custom gingerbread trim and screen doors for their log homes, complete with the owners name carved in, ive also seen bird house kits that fit together with tabs, the machine only knows what you tell it, couldn't care les if it's cutting letters, it's all just shapes to the machine
Posted by Jon Jantz (Member # 6137) on :
Jake, there was a Letterhead that posted for awhile that did quite a bit of custom routing for other sign companies. He'd take the files already set up from their designer, often use their substrate and turn it around quickly and for a good price.
Since he did wholesale work with very little setup and material costs, he charged much less than most on here, but still made good profit...
He often presented another side to the 'We can only do highly creative, very expensive work on our machines' discussions... but was ridiculed, mocked, tarred, feathered and ran out of town by a few of the elitists and Letterhead tough guys here...
I hate it, because I enjoyed seeing a different opinion once in a while since not all of us are in markets to produce $200 a sq. ft. signs all day every day.... although he was rather intense and a little bit of an AW, he was actually a pretty cool dude. Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
basically a rather intense, pretty cool, AW
...yet ran off by... um.. well, ran off by 0's and 1's I guess Posted by Guy H. J. Hilliard (Member # 2529) on :
Would you settle for a CNC routing shop that also makes signs (and parts there of).
I make sign parts, cabinetry, musical instrument parts (currently Banjo necks and custom Solid body electric bodies), childrens educational toys, and just about anything else my customers dream up.
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