Want to learn to surface your wasteboard? Surfacing your wasteboard helps level the surface in relation to your machine. This means that if you have bumps or uneven surfaces on your wasteboard, or if your wasteboard is higher on one side that the other, surfacing will even out and flatten the board. Cleans off old […]

Hey everyone! It’s been pretty busy at the shop as we continue to ship out LongMills. We are just about to complete our first batch of machines and we have started packing our second batch. We’ve made small improvements between the first and second batch I’d like to share. Here’s some of them: The arm […]

This update was originally posted on Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sienci/longmill-benchtop-cnc-router/posts/2712205 It’s been pretty crazy ride the last several months, but we’ve done it! We have now shipped all the LongMill Kickstarter machines to our 300+ backers in 23 countries. Thank you so so much to all of you for making this project possible. With the campaign coming […]

Hey guys, check out our latest tutorial for your LongMill! Taking images (JPEGs and other bitmap images) and carving them into wood and other materials is an awesome way to make signs and other projects. In this video, we’ll be walking through the steps on how to turn an image found on the web, making […]

We have gotten a lot of questions about the settings used for the LongMill. This post will cover details on what settings we use for printing our parts. Material We print all of our parts using black PLA+. The brand will vary sometimes, but we typically vet and purchase material after testing that the material […]

This update was originally posted on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sienci/longmill-benchtop-cnc-router/posts/2656970 Hey everyone. Here’s another update. We have started shipping! Can you believe it?!? This is a pretty big milestone for us, as it means we’ve ironed out enough kinks to finally get a machine out the door. Here’s some things you should know. – We’ve gotten in […]

Original post: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sienci/longmill-benchtop-cnc-router/posts/2641342 It’s been a heck of a journey up to this point. LongMill LongBoards are finally here We’ve been holding our breaths for these boards to finally arrive. They are finally here! We’ll be doing the final assembly, QA, testing, and assembly for the boards before we pack them into kits.   Final board […]

I’ve usually been posting the Kickstarter updates to the blog, but I missed doing the last two. Here are the updates. Progress update #7 Original update made on August 11, 2019 Hi everyone! Here’s our latest update! Moving You might have seen on our last update that we were in the process of looking for […]

You might have noticed that the Mill One V3 has been out of stock for a few days. The reason is because we are out of aluminum rails for them (although we think that we might have a few left lying around in the office somewhere). We’re at the end of the production batch for […]

Hey everyone! We’ve been getting a lot of excited people for our dust shoes, end mills, touch plates, and all the really cool stuff that we’ll be selling alongside the LongMill. Don’t worry, we’ll make sure everyone is going to be able to order stuff for their machine, as well as get it shipped alongside […]