All you have to do is go look at the thread of a CNC machine cutting out a neck if you want to identify the ignoramuses.

"IT'S NOT LUTHERIE YOU JUST PRESS BUTTON AND GITAR COME OUT". That shit frustrates me to no end...I learned to build using hand tools and got into machining later on. If you design a guitar from the ground up and create your own toolpaths for CNCing, you are learning a ton of shit to get it right. The resulting process looks easy but just dismissing it as such is fucking stupid.

There are a ton of people who go and buy CNC machinery thinking it is as simple as the criticism describes it and hit a massive brick wall of frustration. I do CAD/CAM work for guitar manufacturing every day and I've actually had to stop providing any CAM work to outsiders simply because it's the best way to weed out people who have no desire to actually learn a talent and familiarize themselves with their machines or learn how to work with them.

The prospect of outsourcing the hard work and getting to the point where you can just run the same process over and over again never ends there, because the moment that person wants to adjust anything about their design or process, they're completely lost and emailing me again.

I'm ranting...but I encourage every doofus who has an issue with CNC machinery to go ahead and buy one if it's so easy, see how you fare. You'll be laughing all the way to the bank right?