Get a quote

Tell us what you need to cut. Get a machine class and a landed cost.

Working out what will do the job, checking the seller and quoting the landed cost costs nothing. We would rather tell you early that a machine is the wrong machine than take a fee for discovering it late.

What to send, and why each part matters

• The material. Wood and plastic, or metal — and if metal, which alloy. This single answer eliminates most of the market and sets the budget floor, because metal capability is the expensive part.
• The part size, and the tolerance. Your largest realistic part plus clamping room, and the tolerance you actually need rather than the one that sounds impressive. Both decide the class; neither is the model number on a listing.
• How many a week. A machine that does the job once and a machine that does it forty times a week are different machines, and so is the tooling budget around them.
• The destination country. This decides the electrical supply, which compliance files matter, and what the duty and freight look like. The same machine is a different order going to the US than to the EU.
• A machine you are looking at, if there is one. Send the link. We will tell you honestly whether it matches the answers above, including when the answer is no.

What happens after you send it

1. Same working day, usually: a class and a straight answer

   Which class of machine your work needs, what that class will not do, and — where it applies — that your material needs a machine above the budget you named. That is the answer that saves the most money and it is the one we give first.

2. One to three days: specification and supplier

   Frame, drive train, spindle, controller, travel with workholding, and crated weight, in numbers rather than adjectives. Plus whether the seller manufactures the machine or resells it, which revision is in stock, and what compliance documentation actually exists for your market.

3. Then: a test cut, and one itemised quote

   For anything metal-capable, a cut in your material with the tool, feed, speed and measured result recorded. Then machine, upgrades, tooling, crating, freight, duty and our service fee, each on its own line. Nothing is bought until you approve it.

What we cannot quote from

"A CNC machine, cheap" with no material and no part. Not because we are being difficult — because any number we gave you would be invented, and an invented quote on a machine tool is how people end up with a frame that flexes.

We also will not quote a machine we do not believe will do the job you described, or imply that a compliance file exists when we have not seen it. Both answers come on the first reply rather than after you have paid for a test cut.

If you would rather not use a form

Email [email protected] with the same information. It reaches the same desk. WhatsApp works too if you prefer to send photographs directly.