A chop saw, wood lathe, drill and a drill press, and finally a table saw — nothing fancy, but now with the CNC router ... of the router. He lucked out though and managed to get the Y-axis ...

[Perry] was interested in adding a 4th axis to his CNC machine ... and rolls everything around against the bed of the CNC router. Don’t have a clue what that means? Check out the picture ...

Considering the transition from handheld hand-powered woodworking ... Z axis, side to side and front to back are the X and Y axes. The router spins a cutting bit at up to 25,000 rpm. CNC stands ...