Hey guys,
I contacted the CNC instructor at a local JR College. I showed him some pics of the shaping machines out on the market.
He said he can build machines (no vac included) for probably about $30,000. Thast is the retail price. He said to make it worth his while, he’d like to build at leat 4 machines. He said the profits would go to the department (students would benefit and they would also be helping in building the machines). This guy is a soft spoken guy, and he said there is no difficulty in building a shaping machine. I told be how foam was different ect. He said surfboards are not the first foam cut on cnc machines and that it is all in the cutter speed, feed rate etc.
So there you have it. I hope in the next couple of monst we can get enough interest to propose something to this guy. I am in!!! Any one else out there that wants a machine but doesn’t want to pay $80,000 for a KKL machine?