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CNC Routing Services

Are you looking at cutting some parts of your own design? We offer a professional CNC routing service in a range of materials for other designers, makers, manufacturers and domestic clients.

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Accurate

We'll work with you to determine the appropriate tolerance range for your parts. +-0.1 mm etc

Powerful

Our professional HSD spindles handle deep cuts at high feedrates.

Experience

We've been CNC machining timber parts for 15 years with a continuous improvement ethos.

Solar Powered

Our machines are powered by a 33kW rooftop solar array. Making our operation carbon neutral.

TECH SPECS

The Nerdy Stuff

Read on to be that person who supplies us with world-class CNC ready files.

Materials we work with

Machining

  • Timbers: Plywood, solid timber, chipboard etc. (Sorry, no MDF)
  • Plastics: Acrylic, acetyl, aluminium composite panel ACM
  • Soft metals: Aluminium and brass

Oscillating Tangential Knives

  • Acoustic products: AutexEchoPanel
  • Cardboard and paper
  • Cork

Specialist ('The Pencil Sharpener')

  • Dowel machining 12-43mm diameter

Maximum parts size

Typical machine setup:
2440 x 1220mm with vacuum hold down bed

Maximum machine travel:
2751 x 1590 x 90mm (XYZ)

Preferred file formats

  • Fusion 360 for models and profile cutting
  • Rhino 5 or 7 for models and profile cutting
  • .DXF and .DWG for profile cutting only
  • .STEP for models
  • .AI for profile cutting, please ensure geometry is a single outline vector.

If you're providing nested sheets, please supply them within a single file. Separate layers for each machine operation type is preferred but not essential. We can draw up and program files as per your specifications, a dimensioned sketch is often enough for simple jobs.

Tooling guide

  • For most panel work in 9-30mm stock we use a 9.5mm diameter compression cutter with 11mm part spacing and 3mm sheet margin.
  • The smallest cutter that can through-cut 18mm stock is 4mm diameter.
  • Most OpenDesk products are cut with an 8mm dia compression cutter on 12-24mm thick stock.
  • 6mm stock we commonly use 4-6mm diameter cutters.
  • Max stock thickness for engraving ~80mm.
  • Max stock thickness for through cutting 50-60mm.
  • Aluminium 1-25mm we commonly use a 6.35mm dia cutter.
  • Acrylic 3-12mm we use a 4.76mm dia cutter.

Request a quote

In order for us to quote your custom jobs quickly, please submit the quote form. One of our team members will respond ASAP and help guide you through the process of commissioning your custom piece.

Deciding on a budget is tricky and we completely understand! All we can say is, it's incredibly helpful if you can have at least a rough budget ready to discuss with us. This can save a great deal of time and help us design and specify a result that is more likely to succeed, and fit your purpose.

If you have no experience commissioning custom furniture and really don't know where to start with budget, or design... that's absolutely fine, we can help you determine a starting range.

One thing that can help, is looking through the prices of some of our standard products, determining a budget base-point. From there, assume that custom stuff will always be a bit more, because of the design time and the simple fact that making one-off pieces is more time-consuming than product we can repeat develop a process for.

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