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>I can build new fun things with the machine? Overly-engineered birdhouses maybe?

I don’t have space for a workshop. I live in an apartment. So I’m pretty limited in the sorts of materials and tools I can use. 20mm of wood is probably quite useful. My table top and shelves aren’t 20mm thick. If this can go through MDF I’d say it’s really useful.

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Unless you have an incredible dust collection system in place, I would seriously reconsider any potential plans to cut MDF in your apartment. The particles are very fine and you will find it everywhere. And that is to say nothing of the particles that you'd be inhaling.

this sort of machine could easily carve 5-10mm of MDF in a single pass. It's awful loud though, even when enclosed.

What I recently made: a terrain map of california cut into plywood. It's several feet by several feet (~600mmx600m), 0.75" (almost 19mm deep at the lowest points in california) and wall-mount-worthy.

Sounds really cool! Got pics?

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