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Originally posted by Whit
Actually, it's even easier than that. A good CAD program will do most of the work for you. A friend of mine custom makes paintball guns. The design is obviously different but discussions of how easy it would be to make a real one is pretty common at his shop.
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Actually, having a CAD/CAM system and CNC doesn't do ALL the work for you - you still have to figure out the order of operations yourself, as well as how to fixture the job. I'm NOT a professional machinist, BUT I do have some professional training as a machinist, and have a small machine shop in my basement (aka, I have too much respect for REAL machinists to call myself one)
It's amazing what you can do today