CNC Shark Forum

My Shark Pro Plus is available on Ebay right now. It's been a good machine and led me in the right direction, but a good portion of what I'm building needs more than 25" on the Y axis so I got a bigger machine. It is item number 300557391733. I'm including the Bosch Colt, precision collets and a dust collector shoe in the sale and the machine is like new, and my reserve is significantly lower than what I paid for the machine. I hate to part with it, but I really can't justify two CNC machines!

That is a good deal, What new machine did you go with???

I picked up a used XZero off of Ebay. Already had a Colombo spindle and a Gecko 540 with it. I put on a new Z axis. This one is a little narrower than the Shark Pro Plus, but longer by a few inches--banjo necks I'm cutting are 29 inches long... At any rate, it's a nice machine, but not plug and play the way the Shark is.

My reserve on the auction is lower than the buy it now price by a pretty good amount too. I'll be losing money on the deal, but I feel like I've already gotten my money's worth out of the machine in experience and even some light production work.

Dave

You know if you upgraded the base on the shark . . . .it is 52" long cut-table area.

CountryWoodCrafts wrote:You know if you upgraded the base on the shark . . . .it is 52" long cut-table area.

True, but at that point you've really replaced everything except the gantry and the electronics--pretty much a new machine at that point anyway.

But for around 500.00 you have a new machine . . . .less out of pocket than buying and trying to resale . . .plus the ease of use of the shark....