Nomad or Shapeoko for brass?

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The Nomad 883 Pro spindle ran up to 10,000 RPM — the Nomad 3 goes up to 24,000 RPM.

Both machines can cut brass well — the choice should depend on scale of the pieces you will be making, and to a lesser degree setting:

  • smaller parts benefit from the precision of the Nomad’s screws
  • the Nomad’s enclosure is better fitted to use indoors on a desk

A small project I did in brass a while back:

which would have been better modeled in 3D and cut w/ ball-nosed tooling, but I’m stubborn.

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