Blain,

The machines I have are a Tormach mill, ($8k), a '91 model Fanuc W0 wire edm (you can pick one up for about $10k now...it's getting long in the tooth) and I recently added an Elox sinker edm ( $2k). If you could only have one, the most versatile is the mill.

Big learning curve if you don't have any machining experience. My advise would be to find a community college and take a course.

Not really interested in taking outside work. Setting up for production is like a muti act play, everything has to work in the timeframe alloted, and small interuptions set up a train wreck to the timeline.

Let me know if I can help on machining questions.