| If you are at the point where you need to upgrade | | | | for a used CNC router when a lower capacity |
| from your manual woodworking machinery to | | | | $20,000 used router would suit your needs amounts |
| industrial woodworking machinery to meet customer | | | | to over-paying, not cost cutting. |
| demand, be prepared to experience sticker shock. | | | | Searching for Brand Names |
| Although you probably know how much the | | | | While a brand name doesn't equate with superior |
| machinery that you need will cost, actually paying | | | | quality in each and every case; in the world of |
| that cost is sure to give you butterflies in your | | | | industrial machinery, venerable brand names are |
| stomach. In order to cut costs on woodworking | | | | venerable for a very objective reason: they offer |
| machinery, some woodworkers buy machines that | | | | durability and quality results. Unlike industries where |
| represent an upgrade but that still don't meet their | | | | "superior" products use cheaper materials to achieve |
| increased demand, means that they don't produce | | | | the same look or popular appeal, industrial |
| enough products and overwork their less than | | | | woodworking machinery is literally the sum of its |
| capable machinery in the process. A better alternative | | | | parts. If a certain brand stops offering the durability |
| for saving money on industrial woodworking | | | | and efficiency that it once did, it can't rely of the |
| machinery is to buy used woodworking machines, | | | | power of its status symbol, because it was never |
| which can be just as effective as new machinery if | | | | status symbols in the first place. If you know that a |
| you observe the following tips before making your | | | | brand has an excellent reputation, chances are that |
| decision. | | | | that reputation will come through even when a |
| Background Research | | | | machine is used. |
| By background research, we're taking about finding | | | | Confirming a Maintenance Record |
| out exactly what kind of machines you need by | | | | Although a brand name can serve as an indication of |
| observing other woodworking operations. In many | | | | quality, no brand can still deliver quality when a |
| cases, growing woodworking businesses overpay for | | | | machine hasn't been properly maintained. Therefore, |
| machinery simply because they don't determine what | | | | before you buy any type of used industrial |
| level of machinery meets their current needs while | | | | woodworking machinery, always ask for an official |
| leaving a little room growth. For example, while you | | | | copy of its logged service record. If an industrial |
| may need to upgrade from hand held routers to a | | | | machine has a history of proper maintenance, you |
| CNC router, that doesn't automatically mean that you | | | | can expect it to fulfill its lifespan and then some. But |
| need to put down $50,000 for a used warehouse | | | | without proper maintenance history, a used |
| capacity router. While you'd still be saving money by | | | | woodworking machine will likely hamper your |
| purchasing the router used, paying the above price | | | | production instead of increasing it. |