Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Homebrew PCBs

Hi everyone.
I'm so glad to have found a forum like this. I have been
experimenting, trying to make my own boards for the longest time.
I'm always on the hunt for new, easy, do-it-at-home methods that
provide clean, repeatable results. The two I've ever put any faith
in are the Press-n-Peel stuff for your laser printer, which seems to
be damn cost restrictive, and the pre-sensitized develop-by-light
boards you can develop with a piece of overhead transparency and a
laser printer, which takes some time and you have to order.
Tell me, are there other methods people are getting good results
with that might be simpler? I'm new, and I'm guessing there must be
better ways I haven't heard of.
I primarily use Mentor or Protel DXP for routing, and mainly have
been using a proto machine at the company I work for to cut
(literally) my boards out. But, I'd really like to not have to rely
on those high-tech, high-$$$ tools, and be able to do something
myself at home, using EagleCad and some cheap tools and/or chemicals
that I can get locally, if possible. What's the current homebrew
cutting edge stuff?
Thanks very much for your ideas.

-Josh D
Pullman, WA