Hey everyone it's Dylan from The Black Forest Wood Company this week we're going to be taking
you guys around our shop and basically showing you every piece of machinery that we have in the whole
shop we're also going to do a tally of price um we're not trying to brag, what we're trying to do
is make people aware of the kind of investment that's required to actually get into this kind
of work uh you know it's one thing to build one of these on a small scale but to actually be able
to have the business set up to produce these on the scale that we do is a whole different story
takes a lot of equipment takes a lot of machinery um and many many years of investment like this is
hard work put in uh by my dad to you know build up this foundation be able to get these machines and
actually produce this kind of stuff so i'm really looking forward to showing this off to you guys uh
if you didn't know a little plug for ourselves we also sell a lot of this machinery so we've got our
our Festool here we've got Laguna we sell lathes, bandsaws, all different kinds of stuff
uh and if you guys want you can call us order from online or you can come on down in store and
we can help you guys out but i do really hope you guys enjoy this video uh if you want right
now leave your guesses below on what you think the total is for the cost of all our machinery
um but with that, I hope you guys enjoy I'm Brad and I think they know who you are
um and we are doing something a little different this week we want to show you guys our shop
and all of the tools that we have in it and just kind of give you an idea of the kind of investment
over the years that my dad has had to make to be able to have a shop that could do this i mean it's
had a really humble beginning for us i mean we're a 27 year old business we started in a 2500 square
foot shop we had a very small retail space and we've just taken it one year at a time what was
the first piece of machinery that you guys bought oh gosh i think i contributed my old uh delta
table saw to the business back 27 years ago that one that we got rid of a little while ago yeah
a few years ago it was a pretty good saw lasted years but just kind of outlived its usefulness for
us yeah we probably had it for about 20 years or something we did yes yeah okay awesome well we're
basically what we're gonna do we're gonna walk through the shop and we're gonna kind of tally
everything up as we go so you guys can get night we don't even we're actually in the middle of
doing inventory so i don't think we really know what everything's worth right now but it'll be
it'll be kind of interesting to see and just give you guys an idea yeah this is probably
one of our older pieces of equipment that we own here this would be a 1960s vintage
dewalt radial arm saw has a 5 horsepower motor a 24 inch reacher cut length on it
and it is just it's a vintage machine i love it it keeps running we never have any problems with it
we probably paid a thousand dollars for this 20 years ago and it was 20 years old at the time
so out of curiosity what do you think this is worth today uh it's probably worth less
than what i paid for it but it's worth more to us than anybody else yeah it's a piece of equipment
yeah this is a relatively new one this is one of our newer machines in the whole shop it is two
right and this is a sawstop industrial grade seven and a half horsepower table saw it's their top of
the line model and it replaced again probably a 40-year-old old table saw that we had another one
and it's just been one of the biggest benefits to our business and i think this one's about 14 000
if i'm not it was around 14 000 the regular price on it we got a couple of extras on it
as well too but it's their top model saw and i don't regret the investment at all whatsoever
we've had this one for a little while our little Powermatic we i think we mostly just used this one
for smaller bowl blanks anything more intricate yeah it's party it's our recycling saw that we use
back here we take a lot of our cutoffs and pieces here and we try and turn them into usable pieces
of wood more importantly for our customer base as opposed to throwing wood away what's one of those
worth oh that's saw here today is probably worth about fifteen hundred dollars do you remember what
they're worth brand new somewhere around there somewhere around there fifteen hundred dollars
new dylan yeah fifteen hundred to two thousand dollars for the powermatic uh bandsaw okay so
the foundation of a solid woodworking business is based on a couple of main pieces of equipment
we already looked at our big radial arm saw we looked at a table saw which is a fundamental
piece of equipment we also need what is called a face jointer and an edge jointer and planers as
well too with those four pieces of equipment you can straighten in true wood every piece of wood
you buy whether it's at home depot or a hardwood lumber store rough lumber is crooked so you have
to be able to straighten square and true all your lumber so table saw jointer planer three
main pieces of equipment and of course your radial arm saw these here these are all pretty oversized
examples of what your typical hobbyist would probably buy right like this is a 16 inch jointer
like i think probably our popular size we sells like an eight inch joiner right yeah six to eight
inches would be the standard home hobbyist piece of equipment yeah this is 16 inches wide when
we're making door styles components all these big table parts we're working on we need the
big width of this jointer here to be able to straighten and through that piece of material
what's this thing worth this one here i think is about a 13 to 14 000 machine as well too really
yes okay so that's an expensive jointer oh it sure is yeah and it also has a spiral head on it
has a helical head you can see it's not a straight cut with the individual knives uh the powermatic
came up with a really nice design with the sheer cutting uh knives and they're two-sided so you can
rotate them when they're dull now this is our old workhorse this thing this is a beauty again we're
talking 25 year old machine here we have never even changed the bearings in this machine here
it's a straight knife planer so it doesn't have the nice technology of the individual
insert knives but this is my go-to machine for accuracy and simplicity of working and
precision what brand is this one this is an SCM formula one mini max machine Italian made would
you pay for it i actually don't remember dylan it was so long ago we bought it used so it was part
of an equipment package we bought from a shop that was closing down put a number on it for the video
if i had to i mean you might be able to pick something like this up for fifteen hundred dollars
to two thousand dollars but the old italian machines are actually better than the new made in
uh made uh imported machines yeah and i'd rather have this machine than a new imported machine
any day yeah yeah most of our guys agree too they like this thing yeah this is everybody's
go-to machine dylan started getting a lot of furniture packages for us it started retiring the
construction of drawers and individual furniture components etc and the only way to properly make
a drawer is with a dovetail machine so that's what this specifically is we invested in this just to
build drawers it uh it cuts a repeating size all the same size dovetail on our drawer boxes
and it does an excellent job for us what did we pay again the magic numbers right around
twelve thousand dollars what we paid for this yeah okay this is our supermax sander that we
have here this is the 25 inch it's a double drum sander it's very finely calibrated it's great for
doing micro sanding where you need to work within a tenth of a millimeter type thing awesome little
sander what's one of these worth well now i think that one was right around five thousand dollars
then we got our laguna edge sander this is new as well just a basic edge sanding
machine we've always got to touch stuff up on an edge sander here and there once in a while
and i think this was right around three thousand dollars if i recall now another thing i'll mention
too a couple of the brands that we've showed like the powermatic the lagoona the supermax
we're dealers for all of that stuff um probably our most popular right now is laguna everyone
really seems to be loving the laguna especially the band saws but we do try to we try to actually
sell what we use because we want you guys to know that we we do stand behind these machines and we
trust their quality so this machine here this is one of the foundations of our business it's
our bsc rover a cnc machine we purchased this machine in the fall of 2008 and it arrived just
before the financial crisis and the collapse of the banking system in the united states in
we were fortunate because of its versatility it actually helped get us through the depression
created by that financial crisis it did because like this machine can do the work of a few guys
right oh absolutely it's like 15 machines in one actually yeah what did you pay for that when it
was brand new well i paid about as much as we did for our house when we bought our house way back
in the day and both of them had been excellent uh investments the machine itself was about 175 000
and then our initial order for tools was about 80 thousand dollars for tools and cutters
and we probably invested another 30 or 40 thousand dollars in tools and cutters since then as well
too i can't say enough about the reliability and the support that we get from bse with the machine
our dream is to have a five axis machine one day the next step up from this here and i
wouldn't consider another machine for anything yeah yeah it is straight to bsc so now here
is our other cnc this one's a lot more light duty it's an avid cnc and we almost strictly use this
machine for slab flattening we've got what is this an eight horsepower spindle on this yeah so we got
the eight horsepower electro spindle so that thing has got a lot of power and we can use it
to flatten up these big slabs now for comparison this machine is basically twice as long and it's
two feet wider than what we can do on our bsc but this is only about a thirty two thousand dollar
machine where the bs is approaching like three hundred grand with all the tools and everything
um but it doesn't have the same capabilities as a bsc it's strictly a slab flattener we could
do some other stuff on it but it's not going to be able to make the door components like
our bsc could no but we do some of the artistic things like the engravings into door panels and
things like that as well two logos we've done quite a few logos on here as well too dylan
yeah yeah so many uses for it sometimes we wish we had a bigger one but we don't have
room for a bigger one right now here we've got our Italian laguna resaw master this is is this
about the nicest bandsaw you can buy from them i think it is yeah it's a 10 horsepower band saw
if you can believe that it's a resaw we use this for cutting all of the stock for making our thins
we would also use this if we were doing a curved top for a custom curved top of a door jamb
because we'll do a bent lamination out of three millimetre thick pieces it and we cut all of our
thins on here it's just uh a beautiful machine to run yeah what's it worth I think this was around
twelve thousand dollars yeah for this machine yep so now here we've got our big thickness
sander and this is probably the most or the second most important machine in our whole shop
what my dad always says is that sanding is 50 of woodworking and up until we bought our cnc machine
this is the most expensive machine that we have in our shop yeah and again this is approaching at
20 years old now and and we're going to have a guy come in and tune it up for us tomorrow
uh and you know hopefully we can get another few years out of it yeah and it's it's got three drums
right so we can do three grits in a single pass so we'll go from 120 to 150 all the way up to 180. um
pretty expensive like my dad said this is what about 170. i think it was 125 at 120 okay so
it's a little lower yep so 125 so about half the cost roughly of our bsc little less than half
something like that yeah um and again this is another thing that we have our eye on replacing
hopefully one day oh geez there's new planar sanders that are out there that feed a table top
through and then pull it back automatically and it just saves incredible amounts of
time and labor so it's i mean there's more tools out there to buy than we can afford unfortunately
dylan i just there's things that we could actually need we could use one of these big new
sanders but this one's doing us for now yeah it's viet right who makes it they're called
viet through bsc yeah yeah so now we got another laguna band saw yeah it's our 18 bx laguna band
saw and this is more of our utility saw that we would use just for random cuts here and there yeah
now this is about middle of the road yeah this is a three horsepower saw this one okay
what is one of these worth i think this is around about a three thousand dollar saw deal three grand
for this yeah yeah yeah yeah and again if you guys want to get laguna uh we've got sales people here
that can chat with you guys about it and I'll show you in our other new bay later but we keep lots of
machinery on hand so that we can actually try and let you guys come pick them up instead of having
to wait okay so that basically covers it for a lot of our bigger stuff so now we're just going to
kind of go through and look at some of our smaller pieces of equipment like our festool any kind of
hand tools um, I'm curious to see though what this number totals up to for all the machinery so
let's go look at the hand tools another brand that you're going to see all over our shop
is festool we are a festool dealer as well now festool is very expensive obviously like there's
a lot of cheaper alternatives that you can get similar equipment for a fraction of the cost
in our opinion you know if you're going to be using these tools every day festool is worth it
and if you want that quality festool is definitely worth it right here we've got our capex i think
it's about a two thousand dollar saw i'd have to look up and double check but this is the the
ks 120 and then we've got one of their mini uh dust collection units underneath these are very
very popular this is about over a thousand dollars set up with the vacuum in the merca
we have probably got five or six setups like this the markers on their own are very great sanders
but then in combination with the dust extraction it just makes a big difference for our shop
it's obviously still pretty dusty right now but without that there is dust everywhere when we
don't have the dust collection hooked up coming along here you know we've got various just skill
saws hand drills uh there's probably a few hundred dollars of machinery on this wall here we've also
got you know all of our chisels we don't have the biggest chisel collection pliers you know
just all kind of miscellaneous stuff here i'm not really gonna put a big value on any of this for
for the sake of totaling the video we'll just maybe say we got again another two three hundred
bucks worth of stuff here uh it's probably worth a lot more than that but it's depreciated so
we'll call it that and we've got our track saw with another vacuum set up this one's got the hepa
extraction so again about a two thousand dollar saw and i don't quite remember the exact price
on these but i think they're over a thousand bucks for for those so then we've got our classroom well
used to be our classroom we've kind of temporarily put that on hold because of covid and how busy
we are we primarily teach turning in here as you guys can kind of see by all the lathes spread out
so the main lathe that our students get to use is a one-way 1018 uh these are about 1500 bucks u.s
so just under two grand canadian we'll say we got six of those and we've got a couple other
ones uh there's a vic mark here we've got a nice big lagoona uh revo 1836. i would have to double
check the price on that one um got another VIC mark over there that's what terry uses to teach
but unfortunately, right now it's kind of set up as our finishing areas because we're just so so
busy so we've got all the lays kind of pushed out to the outside and we're just focusing on
getting stuff finished up right now so here we are right now just to close out the video um in front
of all that machinery that we sell that i told you guys about so it is a little bit of a mess
we do need to work on our organization but you'll see a lot of laguna
there's some super max there's some festool up at the top as well so we try to do a pretty good job
keeping keeping our inventory high sorry charlie i just smacked you keeping our inventory high so
that when people come in they don't have to wait and order something they can just
walk away with it um but after we totaled everything up you guys are probably already
seeing it on the screen but it was five hundred and forty six thousand dollars three hundred and
five hundred and forty six thousand three hundred and eighteen dollars
um that we have in total for our machinery and that's again that's not an exact number uh i
was low and quite conservative on some things like when i went to the chisel drawer i said there's a
few hundred dollars where in reality it's like 25 to 50 dollars a chisel for some of the nicer ones
so um definitely low on some things but it kind of gives you an idea of what it takes for us to
be able to run our shop and be able to put out the volume you do and it's it's by no means
something that was easily attainable uh and not even something i did really this was all my dad
this is 28 years of his hard work you know just putting effort into the business and instead of
taking extra money his philosophy has always been to reinvest it in the business and just grow so
that's that's what we've done with our machinery so i hope you guys enjoyed this style of video
it's a little different and hopefully it gives you some insight too on what what the actual cost of
all these machines that we're using are and then we'll go to charlie for some final words here
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