Hi, we use some parts made from apple ply, a type of baltic birch with inner plies made from birch and a maple ply surface.
Most of our parts are either 15 or 6 to a sheet of 18mm thick x 4x8 material.
We can supply drawings in autocad format, but some cleanup is required as my son only has taken 1 course in autocad so far.
All of the cutting results in 100 % cut through, so no 3d carving. Really just 2.5D stuff. If you have an auto tool changer, it might make sense to consider also having you router some 1/8 round edges and drill a few holes.
Up to now, we have been using templates, a hand router, and a drill press to make the parts, but I would like to outsource as much as possible of our standard parts.
Our volumes are not large - 1 - 4 sheets of material per month.
One thing that I can tell you is that this material likes to burn the edges, so it takes very sharp bits to do the work, and I am very interested in having as clean of edges / minimal sanding as possible.
I am looking for someone with a very sold, rigid, machine that can handle a 4x8 sheet in one loading.
Honestly I am more focused on performance than price on these parts, as the result of imperfect machining is a lot of sanding for us and I don't like sanding parts.
We are near Livermore CA and my preference is to find a shop to work with that is within 500 miles or so, and I can visit to look at the equipment and results.
Thanks
Harry N.