if the parts youre gonna make are those mirrors that you posted some kind of model of.. that looks like a 5 axis part all day, i see no halfway reasonable way to do it otherwise. and well.. 5axis stuff just costs more, if youre not making money off your parts, whats the point? =D

ive decided im gonna make a different rear brake lever for my woodcraft rearsets though, might do something with that. i work at a shop also and with things kinda slow lately, would be a simple matter for me to hassle them for some machine time, heh.

 

I sell 5axis machines and I work with them regularly along with program. Here is my first prototype. What everyone failed to look at is the Chinese knockoffs are 2 inches longer and look weird because they pivot down at the base. I already completed my first prototype and that design is my rendering.

 

Those look like Rizoma clones, which Chinese manufacturers have already copied.

 

Make a prototype and reach out to companies like STG and see if they’d want to take it on under their own brand line (like STG did with their tire warmers). You’d have to ensure there isn’t anything proprietary that’s being copied, or make it just different enough to avoid a lawsuit. But that way, you could leverage their brand and marketing image to drive sales, which to what others have said here is difficult for smaller businesses competing with big companies and the many knockoffs flooding the market. You would then be relying on volume as your margins would be smaller than selling direct, so doing it from your current work might be a longer term challenge. Just a thought.

 

Yea. That sad truth is it takes a great company to make a good looking product and capitalism to come right on over and do what I’m doing. Is what it is tho. We’ll see how they come out first .

 

who would buy these from me?

You will need to become forum vendors to sell on both the r1 & r6 forums.

 

These are the Chinese ones that are hideous !

 

Nice Q60 [emoji846]

 

there's been a few guys over the years on these forum decide to make their own stuff. one guy bought a cnc and put it in his garage to make rearsets etc. not sure how it turned out. but he seemed really excited about doing it. enough to spend $70k for a used haas.