Thank You ShopBot

[chiloquinruss]

I can't begin to tell you how much I enjoy my bot and the community that it brings with it. Thanks to Ted, the Bill's, and of course this forum have made my retirement life most enjoyable. I hope everyone has a most prosperous New Year and I look forward to receiving a lot more inspiration and help from all of you. Enjoy! Russ

[steve_g]

Russ

Well said... and ditto!

SG

[steve]

Me too Russ, although i'm not retired. The shopbot is the tool I've been waiting for all my life... well all my life before I got it. I started with an early cable drive machine, even got an extra control board and stuck a lathe under it. I'm not sure I would still be wood working with out it. Figured my next job was mowing lawns at a gulf course.
Happy New Year everone :-)

[Dianne]

I'd like to take this opportunity to wish you all a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year! I enjoy reading the posts and looking at the projects more than you could imagine. Over the years you've made me laugh and cry, the year that Brady became a fulltime ShopBotter was one of those moments. Thank you all for staying so involved, and for sharing your knowledge.

Dianne

[kurt_rose]

So your saying Brady made you cry? LOL!!!! Happy New Year people! :D

[Brady Watson]

Thanks Dianne - and a BIG Thank You to the team at ShopBot and the participants of this forum. It's through the kindness and generosity of others that I was able to learn a 'whole lot' early on and have the courage to succeed. Nobody can do it all on their own. We need each other. I'm still learning new tricks and wow'd by what people are doing in their shops. Today is as good a time as any to be thankful for what each of us contributes to the lives and work of everyone here.

What would your life be like if you didn't have a ShopBot? I know it sounds trite, attributing happiness or deeper self expression to a robot of all things- But, I feel that these are more than just tools - they are life changers - because they become an extension of your own creativity, talent and dreams...and that's pretty important stuff when you think about it. If I never chose to get involved with ShopBot, my life would be very different. I would probably still have that unscratched 'itch' I felt my whole life that goes along with being creatively stifled. After I bought my 1st ShopBot, I didn't have to feel that way anymore. That's priceless to me.

Here's to a Happy, Healthy and Successful 2013!

Cheers!
-B

[myxpykalix]

Well to me a Shopbot is a tool, much like a brush is to an artist. Without it, you couldn't paint a picture. And for example, without it I couldn't create my hollow spirals. I wouldn't endeavor to bother to make them if i had to do it by hand.

So it "artistically" is our "paint brush" that allows us to be creative. The software is your "paint" and the Bot is your canvas.

So does that make Ted our "art teacher"?
(well he's no Picasso, that's for sure!)

[Ajcoholic]

I've been very pleased with my decision to go with a Shopbot. It was something I mulled over for about a year and a half. Although I have only had to use the excellent customer service a few times ( finding the forum handled most of my questions) I am sure things would have been much different without the assistance.... Much different.

I look forward to 2013 and seeing what I can keep doing to add to my business ventures with the bot.

Thanks! :)

AJC

[Ken Sully]

Andrew,
I am glad to see your response. I two have been looking at Shopbot for about a year!
I have a used one in my sights and hope to have it in the spring. As long as someone doesn't buy it from under me!!
I enjoy following the Forum and am sure you will see this new bee kicking around looking for help
2013 looks to be a Shopbot year for me!!

[crash5050]

I'd like to take this opportunity to wish you all a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year! I enjoy reading the posts and looking at the projects more than you could imagine. Over the years you've made me laugh and cry, the year that Brady became a fulltime ShopBotter was one of those moments. Thank you all for staying so involved, and for sharing your knowledge.

Dianne

Which was it, laugh or cry?

[Michael B]

Thanks to all of you that post and comment. it has saved me time and inspired me to greater heights. Enough cannot be said about ShopBot's customer service, Thanks to all there who support us. I have been a happy ShopBot owner since 2009. BT48 w/spindle. Again, thanks to you all for posting, and lets have a great, creative and busy New Year.

[myxpykalix]

Michael,
You've owned a shopbot since 2009 and this is your 1st post?
you've got some catching up to do!:D

[Dianne]

To answer the "laugh or cry" comment: I cried, Brady came to the Forum to say he had lost his job as a programmer (I think) and wondered how he was going to get a business going with his ShopBot. The replies were just incredible, with lengthy write-ups on suggestions, and I think it's fairly clear how lucky we all are that he continued with his CNC router.

[Simops]

Ditto to all of the above!!!

When I first searched for a CNC I was looking at AUS first of course but could only find heavier industrial types at $50K+ (in fact a friend of mine has a Procam in his shed) out of my range then looked at the only other alternative, Chinese models:eek: Then by luck saw this Shopbot thing on You Tube. Never heard of Shopbot before....not here in AUS. Thought....nah they wouldn't ship to here but did some research (mostly through this Forum...worth at least a third of the price of the Bot:p) and then Dianbe worked it all out and here it is and never looked back.

You All have a prosperous and above all Safe New Year.....

Cheers ;)

MT

[harryball]

Happy New Year to everyone and all of the above. Thanks to ShopBot and looking forward to a great 2013.

/RB

[jhedlund58]

i asked my machine shop.. where i bought my other tools... and they referred me to shopbot.... wanted me to have the best... as they know my expectations... thank u shopbot for selling quality product... good service.. good price

happy customer

Jeff

[jerry_stanek]

Michael when you ordered yours did they have to reverse everything and build it upside down or do you just stand on your head to run it

[Simops]

Sure did......I reversed my X & Y .......now it makes sense to me:p

[chiloquinruss]

Yeah but I bet the dust collector goes the wrong way! :) Russ

[Brady Watson]

To answer the "laugh or cry" comment: I cried, Brady came to the Forum to say he had lost his job as a programmer (I think) and wondered how he was going to get a business going with his ShopBot. The replies were just incredible, with lengthy write-ups on suggestions, and I think it's fairly clear how lucky we all are that he continued with his CNC router.

If you go back in time (http://www.talkshopbot.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9382)...you can see the same thread of generosity directed my way when I was just getting going. I bought my machine in about a year earlier as an "ok maybe someday when I am 40 - Plan B" kind of thing because the company I was working for was cooking the books & I wanted to cash out my stock options and put it into something that would make me money. I made it thru about 7 layoffs before I got the axe. 700 people laid off total. I always aspired to 'ride the wave of life' and surf on the crests and valleys, knowing I would be OK. ShopBot and this community were instrumental in this - and I'm still surfing the waves of life & hanging loose :D

Just buying a ShopBot is no guarantee of anything. You have to really want 'it' bad enough, and do whatever it takes to get it, while avoiding circus side shows, and operating with integrity (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/integrity). Of course, people - like the generous members of this board, sharing professional tips & techniques, is one heck of a bolster to those of us just starting out.

Remember: What one man can do, another can do - If you want it bad enough.

-B

[kurt_rose]

Amen Pal. Thanks for all the help you've given me. Sums up this board to a tee. You and this board has really shortened this guys learning curve! Makes Shopbot what it is! :D

[Rick W]

I agree!

And thanks Brady!

Rik