I TOTALLY jumped in and ordered a OneFinity Woodworker X-50 last November after extensive online research. It’s been an incredible machine so far. At this point I’d say it’s been a great learning experience peppered with an extensive series of realizations and reality checks so far. Here are a few things I have learned along the way which might help you if you’re interested in taking the leap:

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I’m about 7 months into my CNC woodworking Journey. It all started when I came across this video on YouTube and pretty much instantly thought this was going to be my big side-hustle-turned-business-windfall idea. CNC also seemed like the perfect marriage of technology and tangible durable goods which checked a lot of boxes for me.

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Based on all of these real-world learnings, I’ve completely re-framed my view of my CNC business journey. From now on I’m thinking of it as a low-volume hobby business that may, if I’m lucky, pay for itself at some point. At this volume it’s still fun, it’s still really satisfying, and should really fit in well with the rest of my day-to-day life.

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I’m going to bookend this piece with another video very recently released by the same guy, Ryan, that created the initial video mentioned in my the opening paragraph above. This second video goes WAY MORE in-depth to show what it REALLY TOOK to scale his CNC business up into the 7-figure range. It shows in detail what it took to ramp into it from those first few sales to thousands of sales. Family pitching in. Boxes filling the family room. People staying up all night to mail stuff out. This would be a living nightmare at this point in my life and I didn’t see any of that side of this initially.