Steve,
Thanks for the quick reply. As far as my CNC build, I truly am standing on the shoulders of those who have come before me. I have absolutely no machining experience, but do a lot of wood working. This is my driving motivation, also the personal satisfaction of building such a machine. I am very grateful to all on this forum who have taken the time to describe (in copious detail) their builds.

My present task has been building a bench for the CNC router. I need to get the machine together so as to determine how exactly things will fit together. Currently I just have an assortment of sub-assemblies sitting on the floor. It will be exciting to see it in a more 3 dimensional form.

Rick