Woodworker's Journal

CNC Routing: Woodworking or Wimping Out?

hy would anyone confuse programming a computer with woodworking? One reason is that a CNC (computer numerically controlled) router can do some things that you just don’t want to do. In the same way that you could plane a huge board of rough stock

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