From Used Wood Planers to Used CNC Routers, Used Woodworking Machinery Offers Quality at a Low Price

Almost every woodworker who supplements his or her full time income with small woodworking projects dreams of what it would be like to make woodworking a full-time job and create a woodworking company that meets high customer demand. If this describes you and you've already started a stand alone woodshop, there will likely come a time when you have to upgrade from your current woodworking machines to industrial woodworking machines in order to increase your production output. But when you reach that point, you'll immediately face a challenge that all woodworkers face when they decide to take their business to the next level: the cost of industrial woodworking machinery.

While industrial machinery isn't known for being cheap, industrial woodworking machinery contains some apparatuses that most of us would have to mortgage our homes to afford. For example, if you're moving your woodworking business to a warehouse setting and you need top efficiency machines, a top grade CNC router could easily cost you in excess of $200,000, while a top industrial grade wood planer might cost you around than ten percent of that sum. In either case, when your start up cost looks as if it will climb well into the six figures, it's time to start considering what you could do to cut costs and still get the same results.

One of the worst decisions that woodworkers make when faced with the cost of industrial machinery is buying less expensive machinery that isn't geared for the rigors of high production woodworking. For a while, low-grade industrial machines will stand up to high level industrial wear. But they eventually start breaking down and break down more frequently as time goes on, leaving a woodworking company with a production line that can't support its workflow. A better decision that woodworkers often make when faced with the cost of industrial machinery is buying used woodworking machinery. When you buy used industrial woodworking machinery, you often pay less than half of a machine's original price, which can make everything from used wood planers to used CNC routers suddenly seem rather affordable.

When shopping for used woodworking machines, the most critical aspects of buying the right machine are investigating the seller's reputation and requesting an official copy of a machine's lifetime maintenance record. On the second count, it's best to limit your options to machine's that are sold by professional dealers, as opposed to machine's found on eBay, in the newspaper, at flea markets, etc. Whether you're looking to buy used wood planers, CNC routers or jointers, a reputable professional dealer will inspect the mechanisms of woodworking machines before putting them on the market, reconditioning them where necessary. Combined with a maintenance record that shows regular service, buying a used machine whose inner workings are as good as new offers you new machine quality at a used machine price.

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