Part of the material testing process at CNCROi.com is deciding which laser source works best for any given material. For marking steel it's always fiber laser source but for wood, CO2 laser source but this isn't always true with other...
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I get asked quite often why I don't give quotes over the phone, a customer might have a project in mind but without a budget and wants a ballpark figure – fair enough – but we aren't baking cookies here...
I like making samples to show people the possibilities that CNCROi.com offers their company, big or small, I have yet to find an application that could not use some serious CNC ROi! The reason why I tend to make my...
When the shop isn't humming with customer projects, I like to take some time off and get my hands dirty with some model making... the journey that started CNCROi.com has been a long one and it's roots are in model...
Laser engraving a phone out of plastic is no different from engraving any other material other than you really can't screw-up! You have one chance and it has to be perfect on the first go, as with most of our...
I've been mentioning here on CNCROi.com that we can cut and anneal 304 Stainless Steel as well as 316 Stainless Steel but I've had a few inquiries as to what the difference is between the two so let's do a...
I have a sample leather business briefcase so I used it in this instance to highlight what the capabilities of CNCROi.com are for genuine leather... the briefcase itself is almost 20 years old by the way and has traveled with...
I lined-up some carpenter's pencils in our Trotec Speedy 400 flexx on our solid aluminium table. We use these wooden carpenter's pencils for a wide variety of tasks across many different materials from Corian through to Formica and even wood....
We got our first sample shipment of Anodized Aluminium here at CNCROi.com in order to round-out our product offerings, these are all custom cut for specific applications our customers have been asking us for and this is high quality Anodized...
Booted-up the Trotec Laser and engraved an awesome wood panel for Creative Store Fixtures. We achieved great detail and yet another happy customer... for this we used our CO2 laser source as fiber wouldn't have produced any results but it's...
Now that the CNCROi.com shop is fully powered, I had a bit of fun annealing my own business cards out of 304 Stainless Steel which were themselves cut with a 4 kw CO2 laser with nitrogen to my specs. I...
Now that I've spoken to a number of manufacturers who are interested in the CNC offerings I can provide, the one question I keep getting asked is "What's your hourly rate?" My answer is always "I work by the project,...
No matter how well you plan international logistics, it always seems to take longer and cost more money! I was supposed to get everything to start the business mid-June but various issues keep popping-up which push things further back, the...
I spent quite a few hours designing-up my business cards and during that process realized that my old tag line "focused on your bottom line" wouldn't make much sense to people initially as it doesn't actually describe what CNCROI.com does!...
"Focused on your Bottom Line" is the tagline of my upcoming custom CNC shop - CNCROI.com. My focus on this shop isn't on the traditional concept behind "bottom line" meaning the cheapest shop on the block that gives you value...