I build dart cabinets and customize them with all sorts of designs on the front and interior. Everything from a last name engraved to 3D relief carvings and custom shapes. It's pretty much all I make with my current Carvewright machine and it's been pretty rewarding. The CW has served me well, surprisingly well I think. I've had few issues with my machine but she is getting old in the tooth now and needs some upgrades.. she has 800 hours of run time on the original cut motor, sandpaper belts and belt drive motors. I will probably keep it going but I started to think about did I really want to put $500+ into that machine now or put some more into moving on and learning something which opens more possibilities. So here I am
As I hunt and peck and watch some tutorials, I am finding the initial learning pretty easy going. Starting out with just recreating some basic cabinet templates I use and a few simple projects. As I have a few completed I was thinking I might post one or two and see if the established Vectric users can suggest a smart way to accomplish what I came up with.
The FIRST real question that I have regards the software purchase and can I start with purchasing VCarve Pro and move up to Aspire down the road if I need to, or should I make the full commitment now? .. I have seen people mention ( not here but on other posts elswhere ) that Vectrics policies are if I purchase VCarve Pro but decide I want to move onto Aspire that there is a pretty nice discount applied to the move up... I have seen mentioned that they apply the purchase price of VCarve Pro as the discount so there is little to know risk to me starting out slowly and moving up when I am ready. True or False ?
