interesting link for diy

[LowDown]

I haven't tried this company but they could be useful to a lot of us diyers:
http://www.bigbluesaw.com/saw/?gg-a3

[joakim]

That looks pretty good. I wonder how much teddybear's diy skater would be
if made in aluminium? Thanks for the link!

[Larry Rutledge]

yea, do we have a suitable cad file of teddybear's plans that we can send here and get a quote on having the pieces made?

[bklyndv]

That's cool. In the past, I've spent some time looking into http://emachineshop.com. A friend who's an engineer had some cautionary words, though:

I have used eMachine, the interface takes a little bit of time to learn and the tutorials are half decent. The problem with eMachine is that there is no real customer support and if a mistake is made - you eat the cost. If you go to a machinist, you might pay about 10-20% more, depending on the exact nature of the piece. In my case, with the prototype molds for my product, the machinist under bid eMachine by about 20%. I'm sure there are plenty of machinists in BK that can take a sketch and make the part for a comparable price. (Although machinists, like mechanics tend to try to rake you over the coals when they think you don't know how much it should cost)

[Taylor Moore]

There is also another on-linr fabrication company called:
www.emachineshop.com