Welcome to the forum! I've heard good things about both machines, probably more about the Shapeoko, though. What will you be machining, primarily?
Understood - I'm on several woodworking, Luthier, and CNC forums. What I meant in asking what you'll be making was more to find out if you'll be doing signs, 3D carvings, plaques, engineering work, etc.I'm a member of many woodworking forums
Ah ok. signs and plaques mostly. At least for now. I'd like to delve in to 3D carvings eventually but that will be in the far future. I'd like to get a robust system that has little maintenance as possible. This has me leaning towards the onefinity as it has a ball and screw system which if I understand correctly is much sturdier than a belt system and will have less issues. But again I'm open to opinions. Especially on machines I have not already listed so I can get a bigger data pool to do my comparison.Understood - I'm on several woodworking, Luthier, and CNC forums. What I meant in asking what you'll be making was more to find out if you'll be doing signs, 3D carvings, plaques, engineering work, etc.
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You might look at C4N they have a pretty sturdy machine for the money.Looking to get a CNC later this year but want to get started on researching now. I'd like to keep it around $2500 with a $3000 hard cap for the hardware. After a brief search the 2 that seemed the most promising were the shapeoko and onefinity. Are there others you would recommend?