In this special edition of Cutting Corners, Jim and Jake take you behind the scenes to check out our CNC routers and how they keep parts clean and precise. Not every material can be cut with a laser or a waterjet. Some of them just burn up, swell, or fall apart once they get wet. That is where the routers come in.

They talk about why routers are perfect for materials like wood, Delrin, and ACM, and what kind of limits come with using a spinning bit instead of a laser beam. See what SendCutSend uses to keep parts in place during cutting operations to hold tolerances and keep parts accurate.

Jim and Jake walk through how the tool changers keep things moving and share a few real shop stories, like the time an old bit sparked up into a little Boy Scout fire.