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In celebration of 5 years in the CNC business, LHR Technologies introduces the first Personal CNC Under $1000.


PRESS RELEASE - NOVEMBER 22, 2011

CARVEWRIGHT CELEBRATES 5 YEARS WITH THE
FIRST CNC UNDER $1000

LHR Technologies Announces Another First in Personal CNC

Pasadena, Texas – November 22, 2011 — In November of 2006, LHR Technologies was the first company to introduce a low-cost (under $2000) computerized woodcarving system designed specifically for the hobbyist CNC market. Since then, the CarveWright System has become the most sold and most used of any small table-top carving machine. Now, 5 years later, the CarveWright System is making another significant first with the only personal CNC router under $1000.

Now in its fourth generation with the CarveWright Version C, LHR has continued to focus on its original goal. “We set out to change the industry and make this technology much more accessible to the individual and small business owners. This is the next logical step in the evolution of the CarveWright. Over the last 5 years, we have continually added to the machines capabilities and increased its reliability; now we can offer it at the unheard of price of $999,” says CEO & Inventor, Chris Lovchik.

Built with a small footprint and patented feed through system, the CarveWright offers the largest output capacity available. Projects can be designed up to 144” in length and 14.5” in width, but using the Tiling Technique, finished project sizes are unlimited.

With your ideas, a carving medium (wood, hard plastic or foam), and your personal computer, the basic system includes everything else you need to get started. As not every individual’s skill level and budget is the same, LHR’s pricing system allows customers to build upon their system as needed offering a full array of advanced software features such as the ability to import 2D & 3D files, carve 360º on 2” dowel rods & select from a multitude of specialty bits to suit your project.

Customers have pushed this product far beyond original expectations. Through their individual creativity, they have found new ways to use this desktop fabricator. From arts & crafts, sign making, building musical instruments and woodworking projects to full 3d sculptures and prototypes, the machine’s versatility is limited only by ones imagination.

For more information regarding LHR Technologies or the CarveWright Woodworking System, please call the company at (713) 473-6572 or visit the website at CarveWright.com.

About LHR Technologies, Inc.:
LHR Technologies' revolutionary carving system was first introduced through Sears in 2006 as the CompuCarve. The machine is now sold as both the Craftsman®CompuCarve at Sears and as the CarveWright® System through several leading woodworking and home improvement stores, including as Lowe’s, WoodCraft Supply, Amazon.com, Northern Tool + Equipment, AAFES and select Ace stores. The machine is widely distributed to woodworking and technical educational programs at high schools,
middle schools, technical colleges and universities throughout the country. It offers not only a small, compact and affordable alternative to computer numerically controlled (CNC) systems, but also an intuitive and user-friendly software suite that LHR has continued to enhance into a robust, full-featured package.

If you would like more information about this topic or to schedule an interview, please contact Joe Lovchik at (713) 473-6545 x 825 or [email protected].

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In celebration of 5 years in the CNC business, LHR Technologies introduces the first Personal CNC Under $1000.


PRESS RELEASE - NOVEMBER 22, 2011

CARVEWRIGHT CELEBRATES 5 YEARS WITH THE
FIRST CNC UNDER $1000

LHR Technologies Announces Another First in Personal CNC

Pasadena, Texas – November 22, 2011 — In November of 2006, LHR Technologies was the first company to introduce a low-cost (under $2000) computerized woodcarving system designed specifically for the hobbyist CNC market. Since then, the CarveWright System has become the most sold and most used of any small table-top carving machine. Now, 5 years later, the CarveWright System is making another significant first with the only personal CNC router under $1000.

Now in its fourth generation with the CarveWright Version C, LHR has continued to focus on its original goal. “We set out to change the industry and make this technology much more accessible to the individual and small business owners. This is the next logical step in the evolution of the CarveWright. Over the last 5 years, we have continually added to the machines capabilities and increased its reliability; now we can offer it at the unheard of price of $999,” says CEO & Inventor, Chris Lovchik.

Built with a small footprint and patented feed through system, the CarveWright offers the largest output capacity available. Projects can be designed up to 144” in length and 14.5” in width, but using the Tiling Technique, finished project sizes are unlimited.

With your ideas, a carving medium (wood, hard plastic or foam), and your personal computer, the basic system includes everything else you need to get started. As not every individual’s skill level and budget is the same, LHR’s pricing system allows customers to build upon their system as needed offering a full array of advanced software features such as the ability to import 2D & 3D files, carve 360º on 2” dowel rods & select from a multitude of specialty bits to suit your project.

Customers have pushed this product far beyond original expectations. Through their individual creativity, they have found new ways to use this desktop fabricator. From arts & crafts, sign making, building musical instruments and woodworking projects to full 3d sculptures and prototypes, the machine’s versatility is limited only by ones imagination.

For more information regarding LHR Technologies or the CarveWright Woodworking System, please call the company at (713) 473-6572 or visit the website at CarveWright.com.

About LHR Technologies, Inc.:
LHR Technologies' revolutionary carving system was first introduced through Sears in 2006 as the CompuCarve. The machine is now sold as both the Craftsman®CompuCarve at Sears and as the CarveWright® System through several leading woodworking and home improvement stores, including as Lowe’s, WoodCraft Supply, Amazon.com, Northern Tool + Equipment, AAFES and select Ace stores. The machine is widely distributed to woodworking and technical educational programs at high schools,
middle schools, technical colleges and universities throughout the country. It offers not only a small, compact and affordable alternative to computer numerically controlled (CNC) systems, but also an intuitive and user-friendly software suite that LHR has continued to enhance into a robust, full-featured package.

If you would like more information about this topic or to schedule an interview, please contact Joe Lovchik at (713) 473-6545 x 825 or [email protected].

And most returned!!!!!!!!!

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And most returned!!!!!!!!!

You know, p34nut, you're probably right in your statement.

You see, we first came to the market through Sears as the Craftsman CompuCarve. We had planned on launching in the Spring of 2007, but Sears wanted it in time for the 2006 Christmas Season. So, they pushed up the launch date and publicized the heck out of us. That's probably about the time most of you learned about us.

LHR Technologies at that time consisted of 6 engineers (most of them from NASA) and someone's mom answering the phones. Needless to say, we weren't prepared for the response, but neither was Sears. They sold thousands and thousands of this magical machine that "you just put a board in and out pops a carving".

Their salesman didn't know what they were selling and couldn't properly educate the potential customer on what it was they were buying or what would be expected of them as a user (ie. computer skills, knowledge of how to use the machine and preventative maintenance). Most of the customers were not familiar with Servo Motors that could communicate back with you and assumed any warning message meant the machine was broken, when in fact the message, more often than not, prevents the machine from becoming damaged.

When I first started at LHR in January of 2008, there was what I called "the grave yard" of returned CompuCarves. Sears sold 5 year extended warranties to everyone and their brother, some as low as $50, and their service centers had no knowledge of how to work on the machine. Got a Z-axis stall? Send it back to Sears, they'll get you a new one. Tore your sandpaper belt? Send it back to Sears, they'll get you a new one. I've seen customers that have gone through 5 Sears machines. Not because the machine was broken, but because Sears had a return policy.

A lot of it was pilot (user) error, but it wasn't always the customers fault. We didn't have the proper tools in place to assist those customers in learning how to use the machine, like we do now. We also didn't have a machine as reliable as we do now. Several times I've seen comments from 2007 & 2008 of "It's a new product. I'll let them work out the kinks first." Well, we did. The new Version C with the CarveTight Spindle that replaced the old Quick Change Chuck that gave so many people fits IS solid. So much so, we are in the process of making changes to our Warranty Statement to allow it to be warranted for business use; not just home use.

Most of you know, there isn't much about CNC that is "easy". Any of you that have played with the free demo of the software, would probably agree that as far as CNC goes, Project Designer is the easiest to use, but you still need computer skills. You need the love of woodworking and the understanding that this CW isn't your daddy's tablesaw. It's a sophisticated machine with a lot of electronic parts that produces dust. It needs to be cleaned, lubricated and sometimes when it's cold, you gotta through a blanket on it and warm her up. Sometimes you'll cuss at it, sometimes you'll cuss at yourself, but once it gets into your blood, you'll feel the withdrawals when you're away and know why we call ourselves "Carvoholics".

So, did we have the most returned? Probably, but that grave yard is gone now and 5 years after we started, through this bad economy, and at a fraction of what the other machines are selling for, LHR is still going, still the most sold and still the most used personal CNC.

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