including a milling machine. Granted that might be a slight exaggeration, but [Maximum DIY] was still able to use his budget-blowing lathe to make a decent milling machine mostly from scrap.

That didn't make the enormous investment any easier ... "They want to spend a million dollars or something, and get this milling machine, and we've never done that before." It's never a decision ...

Using this example, he proceeds to design, simulate, build and demonstrate a working ... That said, these procedures should adapt well to other milling machines and engravers.