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©2006 ShopBot Tools, Inc. All rights reserved. All information is correct to the best of our knowledge but prices, descriptions, and typos may change without warning.ShopBot Tools began in the workshop/barn of Ted Hall over 12 years ago. Ted's hobby is building plywood boats and he was becoming frustrated by the amount of time it was taking to cut the panels for curved hulls with hand power tools. He thought a computerized cutting tool called a CNC (computer numerically controlled) router would be helpful but didn't have the $40,000 that even an entry-level machine would cost. So he started thinking about a practical way to make one of the tools less expensively - after all, they seemed to be just large plotters that moved a cutter instead of a pen. Ted's first model worked surprisingly well ... and working out the details of the tool while growing excited over the possibilities of affordable CNC led him to begin spending more time tool-designing than boat-building. [For those really interested, little more history ...]Since that time, affordable ShopBots have become one of the largest selling CNC routers. Almost 4000 are productively working away in small shops and larger production facilities across the United States and around the world. They are used for all sorts of woodworking and cabinetmaking, and are involved in a range of production operations from producing stealth fighters to manufacturing hi-tech housing [have a look at the Applications section].

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