WEGSTR doesn't have a newsroom, and it didn't publish a launch this season. The machine is simply for sale. On the company store, the CNC Wegstr DARK is listed in stock at 3,190 €. WEGSTR s.r.o. builds it in Kostelec nad Orlicí in the Czech Republic.
I'm writing this up as a market briefing and not as a launch announcement, because the machine is one of the few European desktop mills aimed at circuit boards instead of signs. The store is also the only primary source the company offers, so the details below come from WEGSTR's product and accessory pages. TMWB has not tested the DARK.
What does the store list?
The DARK is the dark-colored version of the CNC Wegstr. The price on the product page is 3,190 €. You pick a plug type (EU, US, UK, or AU), and a three-year extended warranty is a checkbox at 199 € extra. The page links a full version of WEGSTR's controlling software for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It also points to a licensed Cut2D Desktop electronics edition for people who want Vectric's CAM package (the software that turns a board outline into toolpaths), and a Cut2D trial is linked as well.
None of that is a specification block. The product description is mostly photographs and links to the company's own videos of boards being milled.
What accessories does it come with?
What the store does document is the work this machine is dressed for.
- PCB set, 199 €: fine drills from 0.2 to 1.1 mm, engraving bits, small two-flute end mills, FR4 copper-clad blanks, solder mask, and the small hardware for a solder mask stencil. FR4 is the glass-epoxy board that hobby electronics are built on.
- Rivet sets, 149 €: rivets for vias in 0.4, 0.6, and 1.0 mm, with the riveting tool in the tin. A via is a plated hole that connects the top of a board to the bottom.
- Liquid bath, 199 €: a tub for milling under liquid, 140 × 200 × 20 mm outside and 127 × 157 × 11 mm inside. WEGSTR says it's for ferrous and non-ferrous metal, PCB material, and plexiglass (acrylic), and that cutting under water or oil keeps the tool sharper.
- Double-jaw clamp, 199 €.
- Diamond engravers, 49 €: 60 and 90 degree included angles.
I want to point out what some of these small numbers mean. Two tenths of a millimeter is a small, brittle target for a drill if your height setting is wrong. Engraving bits cut isolating paths between traces, leaving behind the copper that carries the circuit. A two-flute end mill has two cutting edges and chip grooves, for outlines a drill can't make. Solder mask is the coating that keeps molten solder off copper you want left alone.
The 149 € rivet set makes the top-to-bottom connection. A rivet here is a tiny eyelet, and the tool in the tin flares it so the two copper skins meet. Those sizes sit in the same small range as the drills, so a small miss in height breaks a drill or misses the pad.
How big is the work area?
I'm not going to invent a travel envelope that the page doesn't print. The bath measures 140 by 200 mm outside, and it bolts to the work plate, so the plate is at least in that neighborhood. But I wouldn't treat the bath size as the machine's X and Y travel. A dealer spec sheet elsewhere on the web quotes a larger set of millimeters and a repeatability figure. Those numbers aren't on wegstr.com, so I'm leaving them out. The same goes for the spindle's wattage and rpm.
If WEGSTR wants those treated as facts, they belong in the description, and not only inside a JPEG.
What can it do for circuit boards?
The videos on the product page are the company's evidence: single-sided and double-sided boards, a solder mask workflow, auto-leveling, engraving in metal, and small mechanical parts. Auto-leveling matters on a PCB mill because copper-clad board is rarely flat to within the thickness of the copper. The machine probes a grid of points and follows the warp. That's the right feature for this job, and it's also one you should see work before you trust a 0.4 mm via.
How does it fit the market?
Set next to the rest of the desktop market in early 2026, the Wegstr is a strange and useful object. A Genmitsu 3018 kit is cheaper and flimsier and can scratch a board if you're patient. Makera's Z1, which launched on Kickstarter in October 2025, is the polished consumer version of a small multi-axis mill, at a lower street price and with a software story WEGSTR doesn't attempt. TwoTrees' TTC 450 Ultra is in the same small-and-precise conversation, and it's built more like a general engraver.
None of those companies sell you a rivet tin and a liquid bath as the obvious next click. WEGSTR does. The customer they have in mind already knows what a via is.
What does it add up to, and what's missing?
Priced as a bench, 3,190 € plus the PCB set and rivets is 3,538 €. Add the bath and clamp (398 €), diamond engravers (49 €), and the warranty (199 €), and the sum is 4,184 €. I added those prices myself. WEGSTR lists each one separately, and the Cut2D license is a separate purchase on top.
At 3,190 € the DARK is expensive for a machine whose travel isn't written on the page. It's cheap if the alternative is sending every prototype board to a fab house and waiting a week, or if you already own Cut2D and want the mill, the software, and the consumables from one Czech shop. The store says it's in stock. There's no Kickstarter, no batch number, and no estimated ship month, which is its own kind of luxury.
What I still can't tell you from the company site is the work envelope in X, Y, and Z, the spindle's watts, or a repeatability figure WEGSTR is willing to sign. If your work is a 100 mm circuit, a nameplate, or a small aluminum part you can fixture in that bath, the DARK is worth a direct email to cnc@wegstr.com asking for the travel numbers before you pay 3,190 €. If your work is a guitar body, this was never your machine.
Sources and image credits
- CNC Wegstr DARK product page
- WEGSTR store
- PCB set
- Bath for milling in liquid
- Controlling software
- Product images: WEGSTR store and presentation images
