The type of woodworking machinery that you need depends mainly on the type of woodwork that you plan on doing. For example, if you plan on producing simple furniture that has a rustic aesthetic, then you might not need a CNC router. But there are some woodworking machines that every aspiring furniture maker needs, and one of them is a boring machine. A wood boring-machine does exactly what it what sounds like it does; it bores holes in wood. In most cases, woodworkers that aspire to turn their home woodworking operation into a commercial woodworking business buy a wood boring machine for its ability to drill a high volume of holes in a small amount of time. But depending on the boring capacity that you need, you could be looking at spending anywhere between roughly $2,000 to well over $20,000 for a wood boring machine.

While this price range isn’t unusual for industrial wood working equipment (some CNC routers cost over $250,000), it nonetheless places aspiring woodworkers in a financial position that threatens to kill their business dreams. When faced with the price of high capacity wood boring machines and woodworkers that don’t have big start-up money, they usually choose one of two alternatives.

1. They buy a machine that offers less capacity than they require. (or)
2. They shop for used horizontal boring machines.

While buying a lower capacity boring machine might get you a new machine at a price you can afford, it won’t offer you the performance that you want in a high efficiency production line, and it will eventually wear out from overuse. But when you buy a high capacity boring machine used, you can often get a machine that performs like new at a used machine price.

One of the biggest concerns with used machinery in any industry is that it will soon start showing its age and spend more time in the repair shop than on the production line. Certainly, there are numerous instances where both individuals and companies buy used wood working equipment that quickly fails. But the reasons behind these occurrences are generally three: the buyer didn’t ask to see an official copy of the machine’s maintenance record; the buyer didn’t research the seller’s business reputation; and the buyer didn’t inspect or have the machine inspected for wear.