7 CNC Business Tips I Learned Over 10 Years
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- These 7 tips will help your CNC Router Business and save you time and money! Ryan goes over the lessons he learned over the last 10 years, from Beginner Hobby CNCs to Industrial CNCs, and how he used them to grow his business!
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"Don't go BIG, just go home!" Words of wisdom man. I love it!
Took me years to learn, I hope someone takes it in!
Yeah, man, great video i’m glad I found you. I got in a car accident and it turned me into plegic. I do have some legs, my arms, but I’m sure this is what I can do now I’ll be looking forward to your class. Keep on trucking.🙏✌️✌️😉
Great video once again.
My tip is BUILD CONFIDENCE WITH THE MACHINE ASAP, after that it's super easy to filter potential projects according to the capability of the machine saving a lot of time in useless thinking and calculations. Break some bits but see what the machine can and cannot do.
New to woodworking and I'm learning a TON from your channel! For my personal Bonus Tip, KEEP LEARNING (from Cutting It Close)! 😉🍻
Ryan, your videos are gold and your enthusiasm is contagious. I appreciate how you don't go out of your way to make everything look perfectly clean. The only time a real shop is perfectly clean is when there's no business coming in. Give me money over tidy any day!
So many things to share but if I were to hone in on one piece of advice for others, it would be to know your machine's limits and then use optimized feeds and speeds to get the most out of your machine.
Couldn't agree more! I wish my shop was cleaner than it is, but thats not reality for me!
Thanks for all you do to help us small business manufacturers!!
Such great tips. Thank you. Wish I could offer a relevant tip, but I haven't started on my cnc journey yet. BUT, thanks to everyone in the comments section for the great input.
Invest in learning the design software up front - it will give you a better understanding of what the CNC can do well & will speed up the process
Agreed!
Great video. My problem is sales.
I have set up a business in the past and the process of making a product is relatively easy, it's the sales.
More info and help on the sales would be great.
Working on it! Sales is so important, but I find it's not that hard; it requires action and that's what people are unwilling to do, it's hard to learn your way into sales, you have to do it.
Biggest tip I can suggest is charge the right price and stop making unprofitable items. Work out what you shop hourly rate is, which applies just as much if your at home or rented space, whether your using a CNC, a lacer or a 3d printer. If a product takes 3 hours to carve, cut or print, then the cost includes those 3 hours. If that makes it unsellable and you can't add more machines to have several running, then find another product.
Agreed! Getting a bigger machine does make you faster at producing but the overhead changes. I’ve found a product that cannot be made profitably on a smaller CNC is very hard to make profitable on a larger one.
Next time my wife asks why some projects don't get finished 100%... GETMO, baby, I'm passed that!
My business tip, not cnc specific, be a boss (owner, manager, etc) that people WANT to work for. Teach and encourage your employees and know when to cut ties with folks that aren't there to actually be helpful. (You know the type, the cashier at the store thar looks at you with disgust bc you are making her do her job.)
Ryan, you have a contagiously positive and energetic attitude. That makes a huge difference in the workplace atmosphere.
Hi, good video, good advice, just shows how little we think we know, your spot on, thank you.
Great video and advice. I'm getting started down that road, and I think I've got most of the basics covered here. But the big thing I'm finding is that the finishing work is what takes the longest - and that makes the labor side of things not scale well. Doing edge roundovers on all the parts of my design is an important part of the product, but takes me 2 hours to do...
How do scale your finishing operations (tab cutting, edge roundovers, applying finish)? Would love to learn more about that part!
Thanks for the great videos.
Hi buddy, I'm seriously really interested in buying a CNC machine, I have my eyes completely fixed on a German make and it's called the 'CNC ONE MAX XL' I watch your videos alot and I find them extremely helpful, can't wait to purchase my first CNC and delve into this world, keep it coming with the information bro, very handy stuff to know 👊🏻😁
My tip is simple. Cheap wood will save money but also will tear out or have knots that will crack and blowout. You don't have to break the bank but don't use the cheapest wood you can find.
While just using my track plunging saw I grabbed lunch and watched your video. Having to love carpentry I would like to scale it up like this. Thanks for the video
Thanks again great as always , Tip Set up dust collection ASAP !!!!
I just purchased my first CNC. Like you, I am running a business and profitable. That most intimidating aspect of CNC to me is the software. Learning to design from scratch and implement to finish product seems challenging. Granted, its doable! Main obstacle for me is time devoting to learning software, designing etc takes away from my time in the shop working on orders. At this moment, its just me so i dont have any hired hands. Just curious what your thoughts are!
Coming from someone who has owned 3 4500watt mitsubishi lasers, I couldn't agree more. Sales over efficiency
Thank you for another great video. I’m soaking it in brother!
I am glad I can help you out! Keep on learning and growing!
Thank you for sharing your experience! I find it really usefull, i'm trying to build my buisiness here in Argentina.
What machine do you have ? What hardwood do you have access to ?
Hello! I don't use hard wood, i use melamine over mdf boards for most of my products. The machine is a local Brand, with 7hp spindle
@@luchoperez3472 very cool. Do you have a website ?
I from Argentine to, in the north of country, Formosa, nearer to bermejo river. I looking to use cnc for small furniture business, using local wood, the challenge is to use stock of different shapes. I developing some routine in c++ using opencv for contour detection, and automatic work code selection and place, I thinking in store peaces by operation on database, indexes by tool, then executes all operation for every tool in order.
Any tips on training someone to pick up CNC? I learnt everything from CZcams but I know it’s not easy to find someone as determined to self-learn everything from CZcams if I gave him links of videos to watch
How to find what to pitch and then how to pitch your product to wholesale to small stores or websites
Use the "hobby or business" and "scalability" questions earlier.
This is a bit off topic, but I was wondering if you have a good retention rate in general? Because on my videos I always get terrible retention rate, and I'm not sure if it's because I'm in woodworking, and woodworking is just tough to keep people's attention, or if I just suck at making videos.
I need help perfecting cuts and reducing sanding and finishing time.
What CNC do you have?
Great video 👏👏👏💪💪💪
Thank u bro
My big issue is sourcing materials. I have been building my own sign projects (cutting segments, jointing them, gluing them, planing them and the sanding them smooth before CNCing. Way too much time wasted. How do I source materials?
Are you just creating normal wooden panels, then cutting stuff from them?
What CNC machine would you recommend? i have $10k to burn?
I repeat this every time i see someone asking how much they should charge for machine time on cnc forums: make one or a limited number of products. Don't operate like a job shop
I work in manufacturing (repair) and we do 1 thing. We have many products we service, but we generally do the same thing to all of them and, the parts are similar. Work is where I have learned almost everything about being successful in manufacturing. Work even taught me how to CNC.
I'm trying to bring that home for my own side hustle. Literally, in my garage.
The tips in this video are spot on!
Good business tips…seriously. Now can I give you a fashion tip…just one?
Don’t hate on the Hawaiians, they keep the attention away from the hairline haha
Best tip...stick to one product.
I love to follow you brother since day one..would I be out of line if I post my CNC on your message site to try to sell it??? It's an industrial cnc comes with new water cooled spindle,dustboot,plenty of bits,new spoil board..Charley Thomas from triquetra cnc built it for me so I paid and put it about 22K.
But I'm letting it go fo 14k OBO...it's a solid machine..work size x axis is about 59"
The y axis about 7 feet...comes with computer system,aspire software and mach3 too..let me know brother
The z axis is 8" tall!..it's heavy and solid..has drag chains too and huge ass motors!!
If yall wanna see a video or pictures just let me know..I'll even work with you if ur straight up
Former Marine and software engineer who now finds himself with a 5x10 Laguna. My shop is a complete mess.
It's gotta be SALES!!!
Where the new speeds and feeds chart you were making
Nice video as always, and as always, I’m wondering how long it will take to flex how many millions he made or how much those machines worth…..