Not really. I have done tons of manual wood working. I have 8 or 9 manual routers and a couple of CNC machines (real industrial ones, metal and wood). I have

Not really. I have done tons of manual wood working. I have 8 or 9 manual routers and a couple of CNC machines (real industrial ones, metal and wood). I have done just-about every type of intricate joinery using manual tools and inexpensive jigs. If you have metal CNC it's great because you can really get creative with jigs. My comment wasn't intended to denigrate the tool or the approach. I am trying to understand the use case at scale. Why? Because if you are going to use this type of a tool onece or twice a year for an odd job, you don't need it. A $50 router will do just-about anything if you take the time to make a jig or jigs for the job. Again, if it is an one-in-a-while job, the time taken to build jigs is not important. If you are making dozens or hundreds of something, forget it. Not the right use case. A CNC router or, again, a set of jigs or fixtures is the ticket. Oddly shaped material might be a use case, however, I cannot see this working on concave or convex material with any degree of precision. This, once again, depending on the nature of the work, falls under the realm of CNC (possibly 4 or 5 axis) or specialized jigs. Having done so much work, I just can't see dropping that kind of money for something that isn't likely to give me any real advantages. It will get used a few times due to the cool factor and then just sit on a shelf while I get real work done using manual or gantry CNC tools. I've probably built hundreds of custom workstations using 100% manual tools, jigs and fixtures. It works, you can get amazing precision and repeatability and there's no limit to what you can make. Best of all, if you need five people working on a project, making extra jibs and fixtures is easy and cheap.