The Shaper Origin is a portable CNC handheld router that can be taken to your work unlike any other CNC. I put the Shaper Origin to test by routing and inlaying a diamond pattern into a finished desk.

Introduced last year as an improvement on the very popular Shapeoko CNC router, the X-Carve by Inventables ... That last item is an interesting bit of kit – routing takes time, and a 1¼HP ...

Nowadays it is even possible to get a 3D printer kit for between $200-300 ... He had previously built a CNC Router and decided it was best to add a hot end and extruder to the already built ...