Mostly a milling guy. I have 4 mills under power right now running Mach 3 and one running LinxCNC (PathPilot). I’ve had a “benchtop” router before, but it was a toy. I sometimes need to cut sheet goods, and really would have preferred a 5x10 machine, but I just couldn’t justify the cost of any I liked. Instead, I compromised with the Elite Foreman.

I run a small CNC milling business making low pressure injection and gravity casting molds, and I’ve been doing that since about 2010 and full time since 2016.

I don’t see me making molds on the Elite Foreman. Watching the various videos the cuts are way to light in aluminum to be very efficient. Still, I am looking at a nonabsorbent table and top so I can run coolant or at least spray mist if I have to run some aluminum on the Foreman. Sorry. I know you “can” cut aluminum without it, but it really is the magic sauce to get away from the issues so many have. I’ve bene doing this a while and I fought against coolant for a long time. When I embraced it my life changed.

Mostly the Elite Foreman will get used for wood cutting and sheet goods, but one of the mills in my shop was purchased just for prepping blanks, and it actually runs jobs almost every day instead. I know that things don’t always get used exactly the way they were planned.