Hey Kevin,
we decided to choose the Onefinity after a longer research and compared it to other offers. I am in Europe, that has more than one country that is considered the country of machine building and mechanical engineering (e.g. see here for the choice of spindle manufacturers alone), so we have the choice among a wide range of very high-quality CNCs in all price ranges, including many for self-assembly. We opted for the Onefinity despite additional shipping costs of over €600 from Canada for different reasons. I cannot come to a final judgement as the machine is not yet assembled with all the additional components I bought for the machine. Will keep the forum informed.
But what I can say already, I think is very important that you know exactly what you’re buying and that you know exactly what it’s going to be like when the machine arrives and what is left to do then, what you need to do to make it the machine you need. Because without having done that, I wouldn’t put the machine into service in the first place, and I find it very sad that some people didn’t think it was necessary and lost expensive wood blanks and bits and nerves.
What I bought in addition to the machine was more than three times the price of the machine. However, this is mainly because I want to use the machine professionally and need to be able to rely on it.
So I can only advise you to stay reading and explore the vast amount of information already there (by using the search function), here in the forum and possibly elsewhere, and follow for a longer while and find out what the users have encountered in the course of using the machine after it has arrived, what they have upgraded and improved, or what problems they encountered.
By the way, this forum was for about two and half a year (from July 2020 on) a forum exclusively for the Original X-35/X-50 Series with the buildbotics-derived CNC Controller.
It was only with announcement of 2022-11-22 and beginning delivery on 2023 end of March that this is also a forum for the users of the Elite Series with the Masso G3 Touch CNC Controller. While the main hardware of the models are identical, the Elite Series are offered only with the heavier Z-20 Z assembly (optional for Original Series), closed-loop stepper motors and X-50 rails on all machines.