Anyone familiar with the Carvewright machine

That is the machine sold by Sears as the CoumpCarve.

You can read all about it here:
http://lumberjocks.com/topics/2518

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Thanks Gary, yer quik!

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

i was thinking that cajunpen has one

I’ve looked at this machine a couple of times. The most notable tidbit is their excellent customer service. The second most notable is the need for excellent customer service. Many happy customers, many unhappy customers. We can’t get it in Canuckistan, anyway, Bob. Carvewright won’t ship to Canada and Sears doesn’t carry it in Canada. Another incidence of this sort of thing.

Based on my reading, the single best virtue to have with it, is patience. Keep it clean and dust free, updated the firmware when you can and cross your fingers. It’s right up my alley though, as a merging of the computer and woodworking is pretty cool.

They appear to have a very friendly, helpful and informative users group for howto’s and sharing designs.

Each time I’ve looked at it, there have been enough detractors to make me hold off for another 6 months. I did find an excellent buy on eBay from a shipping company that had one that was refused for delivery, but I was timid about warranty issues.

There, you now have everything I know about it.

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

I have a friend who bought the Sears machine. He had some trouble with it after not too many hours of use.

The cable drive to the bit seized up, & melted near the chuck end. The company was very good in assisting him.

They had him return the machine, & they sent him a new upgraded model. He hasn’t had any touble with the new one yet.

I think I’d wait awhile before buying one of these machines, & I’d advise anyone, if you do plan on buying a used

one, make sure you get the latest version, because the warranty may not carry over to a different owner.

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Bob;

I too have an interest in these machines each time I come across an ad for them. If they did like they say it would be great.

I’ll wait a while before jumping off that bridge. Give them a chance to get the bugs out a little more.

Lee

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i’ve heard that its a good machine but has a really rough cut that takes a lot of work after the fact to get smooth. i think i heard it on a review from FWW.

Thanks for the input fellas:

I did a quick search around the internet and find that an entry level machine suitable for a production shop is roughly $20,000.00. With a wider and longer table table and comensurately beefier servos the cost escalates to $40,000.00
Either you get right into this business or you farm out your occasional pieces and take a smaller margin.
Some folks claim to be doing $37,000.00 a month with them.

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

I have heard good and bad things about the compu carve. At the Houston wood working show I looked at the Epilog laser engraving machine ($20,000) with a “home” version comming out in May ($9,000) and let me tell you this thing is awsome in detail and speed. If I knew I could make my money back I would go for the home version in a heart beat. If this is a tool you were interested in you might check out the laser engraver first.

runngt

-- It seem's I just make scrap wood and saw dust most of the time !