Hi everyone!

New to the forum and have a question I'm hoping you guys can help me out with.

I make license plate art, you can see an example of the Canada Map I make below. I've been looking into buying a CNC router machine to cut these designs as I've been getting lots of orders and falling behind. Right now I just use a pair of tin slips on the plates. The problem is, with the CNC router, what do I do with the plates when the machine is cutting? How do I secure the plates to the platform? Also, with the router machine, it will chip off the paint near the cut zone which would ruin the whole look of my pieces.

So then I looked into cnc water jet machines, but those are way out of my price range. What about laser? Would those be too much?

What would you suggest I do to cut these faster? I also saw a shop press that I could press down on the plates with a die (that I would have to get made I guess for each design) that was about $250. Is that a good option?

Just looking for your opinion on what would be the best method. Thanks a lot for helping out, look forward to the responses.


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