Blog — Notes from the shop

CNC guides that respect your material.

Photo carving, feeds and speeds, GRBL setup — written from the bench, usable with any toolchain. Two new guides a month, kept up to date.

Beginner · GRBL

Why your CNC ruined the board (and the checklist that prevents it)

The machine did exactly what it was told. The six setup decisions that ruin boards — feeds, depth, workholding, origin, flatness, preview — and the two-minute checklist that catches all of them.

9 min read19 Jun 2026