Woodworker and former graphic designer Grant Nicholson was looking for a tool that could turn his design concepts into physical objects. He decided to purchase a computer numerical control (CNC) ...

The cutting system is based on a 24,000-rpm, 5-hp (continuous) 30-taper spindle. The routers are moved at up to 2,000 ipm along low-friction linear guides by brushless servomotors. Motions can be ...

You may have noticed that routers are some of the best designed pieces of peripheral hardware out there, from Apple's Airport Extreme to Belkin's line of sleek obelisks. That placed an enormous burden ...