[balsaman]

What sort of drives, what's your budget?

Have you seen my router? It's pretty beefy and I cut aluminum in .05 deep passes at 4-6" per minute with a 1/4" endmill. It's servo driven and can do 100+ inches a minute. It's a nice machine but it's a router. Routers are for wood, and that's what it does best.

Eric

[E-Stop]

I've cut many a sign, several similar to the one shown. Mostly out of aluminum, some in wood and quite a few out of plastic. All were done on a Fadal 4020 with absolutly no problems. And fast.... you bet! Alot of them were done on the sly between job set-ups so they had to be done before anyone noticed. What I got caught up in for a while was making license plates out of 1/4" aluminum plate with team logo's, names and personalized stuff on them. It was fun but once you make one, everyone wants one.