3D Printers have come down significantly ... he concluded he really wasn’t up for a full machine build. He had previously built a CNC Router and decided it was best to add a hot end and extruder ...

But this plywood 3D-printer isn’t made from plywood ... is more of a hybrid additive-subtractive CNC machine. A gantry-mounted router carves each layer of the print from a fresh square ...

compared to 3000 rpm for a milling machine or a few hundred rpm for a drill. The most common use for a traditional router is working on wood and plastics, such as making dove-tail joints in furniture ...