Some of the very largest – and coolest – CNC machines use supported linear rail for their movement axes. For any home tinkerer trying to reproduce these supported rails, the problem of cost comes up ...

EDM (Electrical Discharge Machining) is one of those specialised manufacturing processes that are traditionally expensive and therefore somewhat underrepresented in the DIY and hacker scenes. It’s ...

Confession time: I upgraded from the Taig to an Avid CNC Benchtop Pro 2x3 desktop CNC, and added a CNCDepot S30C spindle + Fogbuster to round it out. The BenchtopPro is somewhere between a desktop CNC ...

Adding linear rails to a length of aluminium extrusion is a common way to make a fairly rigid guiding structure, and I have been doing just that in the workshop. But things were not working quite ...