Dante puts his 50" Woodmaster Drum Sander through it's paces. He's making a good living as a cabinetmaker in today's tough economy. Woodmaster helps by slashing his operating costs.

LIKE THE OLD SAYING, “WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, THE TOUGH GET GOING,” HERE’S ONE WOODMASTER WOODWORKER WHO DID JUST THAT. FACED WITH THE CHALLENGES OF TODAY’S ECONOMY, HE RETOOLED AND RESTRUCTURED HIS BUSINESS. AND TODAY’S BUSINESS IS GOOD.

“Even in today’s economy, people are making a good living in woodworking and Woodmaster makes it possible with the right size and scale equipment.

Wide belt performance for a fraction of the oost

Woodmaster Drum Sanders may seem big to the average woodworker but I’ve used the biggest and best equipment there is so Woodmaster seems compact to me. But the end product is just as good as big, industrial equipment. It takes a bit longer on a Woodmaster than on a $100,000 machine but the savings in the cost of the equipment are well worth it.

At my business’s peak, we were the largest custom cabinetmaker in Rhode Island, manufacturing case goods (cabinetry) for Dunkin’ Donuts, Starbucks Coffee, and Honey Dew Donuts. My first sander was an industrial 37” Timesaver wide belt sander. Within a year, we needed to go to 3-head 53” wide belt sander.

He reduced costs while maintaining quality

With the onset of the current recession, we saw a decline in orders from those companies. We employed 40 people at our peak. Starting in 2007 we reduced employment to 6. We started getting back into custom kitchen cabinetry, still using the 3-head Timesaver. But just turning on the Timesaver for 20 minutes incurred a electric service and distribution charge of over $600!

That’s when I went to Woodmaster. It’s 500% cheaper to run. It runs on a 480V 3-phase motor and uses fewer amps. No air compressor, just a 3HP dust collector. My cost savings are 99%.

I’m 110% satisfied with the Woodmaster Drum Sander and its operating cost is 99% less. It doesn’t cost $100 a belt like the Timesaver does. I don’t have to fire up 100 HP worth of motors to run a single piece through. I don’t have to run a 20HP dust collection system. I don’t have to run an industrial compressor like I needed for the Timesaver. The Woodmaster is low monetary cost to begin with, low maintenance, and low operating cost.

I’m very happy. With a 50” Woodmaster, I can have 4 grits on the machine at same time, 1-foot wide each. Most raised panel doors are 24” wide so you could run two grits side by side if you wanted. Or I can run a 48” wide table through it. I run 100 grit on first head, 150 grit on second head.

Dante's a Vietnam Vet who's newest enterprise is dedicated to building affordable, green housing for veterans and their families.

Skilled workforce available

Because of the economy there are highly skilled people out of work. I bring in part time people, especially disabled vets. With the onset of Heroes Village, I’m going to give disabled vets and disabled civilians an opportunity to learn and work for a living in spite of their disabilities. I am in the process of starting a 501c3 company, Hope for Heroes, to assist both disabled vets and non-vets learn the woodworking trade in a classroom atmosphere, to prepared them for employment. (See Danté’s biography, A Man on a Mission, below.)

I have no reason to fluff this story up. The Woodmaster company has far exceeded my expectations on service, sales, and everything else. I’ve bought over a million and a half dollars worth of equipment in my career and I’m amazed at what the Woodmaster will do if you keep it within its capabilities. I’ll put Woodmaster machine up against any industrial machine in the world. It’s easy to run, uncomplicated, safe, good equipment.

“I’d tell anybody…”

I’d tell anybody considering a sander, ‘Don’t look anywhere else but Woodmaster. Save yourself time and aggravation — I’ve done the research.’ Woodmaster is an accommodating, considerate company. I have nothing but good things to say about them. My phone calls are returned, there’s no ‘press 1 for service’ like with big companies.

If anybody deserves the Congressional Medal of Honor for helping small businesses it’s Woodmaster because they go above and beyond the call of duty dealing with customers. They really keep the little guy happy. They’re an American company that assists businesses. Thank God for Woodmaster!”

Dante’s survival philosophy

“In 42 years as a professional cabinetmaker, I’ve had the best of the best equipment, the biggest of the big. Today I have Woodmaster because it fits today’s woodworking economy. I have absolutely no regrets.”

— Danté Grassi, CT Cabinetmaker, Woodmaster Drum Sander Owner

 Danté Grassi…a man on a mission

 Danté Grassi is a master craftsman who began his cabinetmaking and manufacturing career in 1973 for national and international clients including Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts.  Mr. Grassi is a graduate of both Northeastern and Johnson and Wales University. He served in Vietnam in 1968 through 1969 and is actively involved in veterans affairs, serving on the Advisory Board of ConnectVets and as Construction Manager of Heroes Village, a series of communities planned to offer affordable green housing for veterans and their families.

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That’s called working smarter, not harder. The key is “VALUE ADDED”…and it’s WORKING!

The Patrick family makes log cabin siding with their Woodmaster Molder/Planer. This "kid's cabin" is a display unit they built to show the quality of their siding. The cabin gets people's attention and helps the Patricks sell log cabin siding.

Steve Patrick started a custom sawmilling operation back in 1996. Today’s economy slowed his sawing business. His solution? Add a Woodmaster Molder/Planer and TRIPLE THE VALUE of his lumber!

Steve and his folks make log cabin siding, and lots of it! This profile creates a distinctive look and the shiplap detail sheds water easily, making this a very durable siding material.

Read Steve’s STORY, then heed his HOW-TO BUSINESS TIPS…below!

Steve Patrick, owner of Patrick Custom Sawing, in Ramer, Tennessee, told us an inspiring story about how he and his family have turned today’s tough economy into a profitable family business opportunity.

Sinking economy, rising financial pressure

“In ‘96 I quit FedEx and started a sawmill business,” Steve said. “I started part time taking the mill around to people’s places and custom sawing” and things were fine until the economy fell apart a couple years ago.

Then Steve’s folks’ paychecks stopped. “Mom and Dad retired two years ago from driving a truck. I started thinking what we could do to give them some income and increase mine, too, while still working with wood.” On top of that, as Steve turned 50 recently and started wondering, “How can I keep from breaking my body? How can I work smarter rather than harder, make more money, and still be dealing in wood?” The idea of planing wood was appealing.

It pays to advertise. Steve (right) and his dad, Bill, set up a clever display on the road by their property. Passers-by can't miss it!

Steve continued, “It was really Daddy’s idea to get a Woodmaster Molder/Planer. It’s scary doing something new or branching out in this economy but the Woodmaster is relatively low investment and if you can dry and dress the lumber, you triple its value.” That’s 300% value added.

Steve’s tripling value by making log cabin siding, but says much more is possible. “When you get into crown molding, you’re increasing value ten times.” Yes, you read it right: 10 times increase in value — that’s 1,000% value added.

Just as Steve does custom sawing, he’s finding, “I can also do custom planing for the public.” And there’s money to be made. “I sell green oak boards off the mill for 50¢ a foot, but once it’s dried and planed, I sell it for $1.50. We triple the value of it.”

“In the last couple years, with the economy as it is, I’ve considered going to work for others but with the Woodmaster, making finished products can help keep me from having to do that.”

The numbers work without a sawmill, too

Steve and his family live on a 300 acre farm that’s endowed with lots of timber. “With our sawmill, I can cut trees, log them out, saw them into boards, dry them, and dress them down into log cabin siding.”

But if you take all those steps into account and all the time it takes to do them, Steve feels it’s cheaper to just buy high grade lumber. “Run it through the Woodmaster and you’ve got your log siding.” Steve can do it either way: cutting timber or buying lumber. “Right now for ease, we’re buying lumber. But we have a choice to buy lumber or cut our own.”

Self-taught perfectionist

Steve confesses to being a perfectionist. “I want to give the customer the best I can make and that he can get.” And he’s self-taught. “Nobody taught me sawmilling or carpentry but 20 years of experience teaches, and everybody can learn something. The carpentry – I look at buildings and figure out how to do it and build it and learn.”

“Some of our business is sawing out wood,” says Steve. “Some is making siding; some is making cabins. The cabins promote the siding. We’re buying #2 select and choice lumber. I’m looking at getting #1 to make siding out of. I’m looking to get the best source so I can sell cheaper and still make a few dollars.”

They’re making MILES of log cabin siding

Making log cabin siding interests Steve personally and his philosophy is, “To keep in business, you do something you like doing. Working and building with wood is something I like doing. I guess I’ll do this ‘til the day I die. I’d like to do more work like build cabins. As I get older, it’s easier to put boards through the Woodmaster and make money than it is sawmilling by myself.”

And at the end of the day, “You can sell log cabin siding and make a whole lot more money for that piece of pine than you can straight off the sawmill.

75 years young, Mom and Dad run siding

Myrle and Bill, Steve's mom and dad, put in a good days work running log cabin siding on the Woodmaster. "They like doing it," says Steve.

Both Steve’s parents, Myrle and Bill, are retired now but they’re running log cabin siding and earning money. “Running this Woodmaster is easy enough work for them to do,” says Steve. “While I’m sawmilling, they run the Woodmaster. It’s something they can do and they like doing it. I foresee we’ll get to the point we’ll have to run the Woodmaster 8 hours a day; I’ll probably hire some help.”

“You could call the Woodmaster part of  our business an expansion of the sawmill and wood business we’ve been doing for 20 years. We’re going from rough to finished wood products. It’s a learning curve but in 20 years you learn something about wood. I want to get proficient with tongue and groove, crown molding. I’ve talked with people about curved molding. I want to learn it all.”

Making a good living and the future looks bright

Steve and his faithful companion have 300 acres with a virtually endless supply of timber to turn into log cabin siding. But they often choose to buy lumber to run through their Woodmaster to make siding.

Steve tells us, “This is a way of making a good, decent living, doing something I enjoy, without breaking my back, working for myself. I wanted to run my own life and call the shots. This helps me do that.”

“We’ve got the 718 Woodmaster and room for a second machine at some point. I’d like to make log siding on an ongoing basis and have a second machine set up for planing. I’d consider using one for a rip saw. At some point in time, a second machine is in order.

“If you’re thinking about getting a Woodmaster, go see and talk to people who own one and I believe it’ll sell itself.  I believe it’s a good product the company stands behind. You can’t go wrong with it. As long as Woodmaster continues to do pleasant customer service, I believe they’ll have us as customers for life.

We’re still in the crawling stage with this Woodmaster but it’s proven it’s capable of doing what we want to do. As we learn and expand, there’s no way to go but up. I’m very satisfied with the product and the direction we’re going in our business.”

ARE YOU READY TO START YOUR OWN WOODMASTER BUSINESS?

Take these tips from Steve – he’s already taken the leap and is making it work!

• Keep costs down

“Watch every penny and keep every expense and cost down as much as possible. We built our own building for the Woodmaster so we’re trying to hold expenses down as much as possible.”

• Shop for equipment value

Log cabin siding comes off the Woodmaster finished in just one pass thanks to the 2-Side Molding System the Patricks got with their Woodmaster.

“The Woodmaster will do what million dollar machines will do at a pretty reasonable price. We paid something like $5000 for this with the Super Pro Pack. $5000 versus tens of thousands is keeping your expenses low.

Woodmaster can be used around the clock, all the time, full time and will stand up, and all at a reasonable cost. You don’t spend thousands and you get a product that will do the job.

You can get cheaper equipment imported from China – I’ve got a Grizzly® planer – but it’s not going to hold up to day after day use. You don’t want something that’s not going to stand up.”

• Invest in production-boosters

“We got the Super Pro Pack, too, so we have the dual router system. And to make it easier on Mom and Dad, we got the extension tables. We got a motor upgrade to the heavy duty 5HP motor. It seems more than capable of handling the load. Log cabin siding takes so much wood off, you wonder if the motor will handle the load. It handles it fine.

• Don’t stockpile an expensive inventory

We’re not stockpiling; we’re making it to order. I sold 800 running feet to someone building a cabin. We ran a couple hundred feet for ourselves. Last week, we did a whole house – we ran 3000 running feet.

• Make only top quality goods

There’s a place near here that makes log cabin siding but they’re using low grade 2 x 8’s and selling it cheap. But I can’t stake my name on a low grade product. Repeat sales and word of mouth is the best form of advertising.

• Use your network

I have a customer base through sawmilling for so long. Everybody who comes by, socially interact with, or at church, I give them at least a piece of log cabin siding. A whole lot of word of mouth. I go to every contractor and builder and let them know I’m doing it and give them samples. I drive all over promoting our siding, giving out samples, and getting high grade 2 x 8’s.

• Advertise in local papers, online, more

We have an ad on Craigslist for siding and cabins. I have to admit, Craigslist brings a lot of phone calls. Business cards, ads in local and county papers, too. I wish every week was like last week – we sold enough siding to cover a whole house. We bid on one 2-1/2 times bigger. I hope that comes through.

• Price it to sell

If you look on the internet, you’ll find siding anywhere from $1 to $3 a foot. There’s a place near here selling it for 78¢ a running foot. We priced ours starting at a dollar, then 95¢, now 85¢ a running foot. At 85¢ a running foot, I’m still making 35¢. I’d rather make 35¢a foot than price it higher and not sell it. As the economy picks up, our price will go up.

• Make displays – big and little

Seeing the cabins we built attracts people to the siding itself even if they don’t want to buy the cabin.

I took a 3-board sample to Lowe’s and set it beside a 3-board display from another manufacturer and Lowe’s said ours would sell itself because our quality is much better.

• No such thing as “waste”

I’m talking to people about selling sawdust to horse people. I told one guy we’d fill his pickup truck for $20. I’ll load it with a front end loader. We’ve talked about making fuel pellets, too.

 

“As long as you’re willing to put in the work, you can make a good deal of money with a Woodmaster. The quality is there and they’re well built. The warranties are good and I’m very satisfied.”

Among many other fine woodworking products, Tim Ziegler makes commemorative American Flag display boxes for the American Legion.

“I’m an advanced woodworker. I have a specialty shop — Ziegler Woodwork & Specialty  — where I make pretty much anything and everything anyone could ask. I dabbled in woodworking for 20 years and have been in business for over 20.

One of Tim's commemorative American Flag boxes - a fitting tribute to one who's given service to his country.

I make a lot of triangular flag cases for a Legion, about 50 a year. I’ve made gun cases, display cabinets, arched window frames for our church, even complete kitchen cabinets.

Massive bearings & USA-made motors

I bought my first Woodmaster Molder/Planer/Sander/Saw back in 1991. Now I have two: I have the 718 set up as a planer and the 725 as a molder. Woodmasters are simple and well built and that’s important to me. Open one up and you see massive bearings supporting the head — that was a big selling point to me. They’ve got American-made motors and they aren’t afraid to put 5 or 7HP motors in them — the Woodmaster is NOT underpowered. It’s simple to align and is just a well made machine.

Payment plan made it easy

I first heard about Woodmaster in woodworking magazines. I dreamed, hoped, and wished for a long time. Woodmaster’s payment plan made it easy to acquire my first molder/planer.

(Editor’s note: Woodmaster offers financing terms on all our products. Our in-house financing program has helped many hundreds of men and women get started in profitable woodworking businesses of their own. If you have dreamed of owning your own business, and are willing to put  your back into it, Woodmaster Credit could be your pathway to financial freedom. Please call for more information on financing — Toll Free 1-800-821-6651.)

Buy Chinese? You couldn’t pay him.

I like that Woodmaster is a US-made machine. I wouldn’t buy a Chinese machine if you paid me. Woodmaster is superior quality and the company works with you. It’s made in the US and if you need parts you can get them at a local hardware store. But my 718 looks as good today as the day I got it. They’re so hardy you just don’t need to replace anything.

Here's Tim's molding production line. The hood's off the Woodmaster Molder/Planer as he makes some fine adjustments.

Up to 1,000 cuts per inch

The quality of my work increased when I started using the Woodmaster. The number of cuts-per-inch is phenomenal. The standard in the industry is 14 cuts-per-inch and Woodmaster far exceeds that. (Editor’s note: Tim’s right – Woodmaster makes 0 – 1,000 cuts per inch!) Unless you get a nick in your knife, you don’t have to sand.

Adding a Woodmaster Drum Sander boosted production & income

I bought a Woodmaster Drum Sander so I’d be able to work on more than one piece at a time.  I knew that machine was made exclusively to sand. The capacity is what I was after.

This machine helps me make money. First off, I’m not spending lots of time sanding by hand.  You can change the sandpaper on the drums in no time so you can go from a medium paper to a fine finish in no time at all.  There is very little hand sanding left to do once I run it through that sander.

He slashes sanding time by 50%

You could probably figure on an average project 50% of your time is spent on sanding.  Now, with the flag boxes I make, I work on 6 or 8 of them at a time.  I run them through the Woodmaster Drum Sander and someone’s out there to catch them.  You run them through a few times and you are done.  Other wise you are working on one at a time and using the sanding pad and vibrating your arms to death.

2 Molder/Planers & 1 Drum Sander — 3 Woodmasters reduce setup time – key to making money

Tim owns 2 Woodmaster Molder/Planers AND a Woodmaster Drum Sander. He gives his Drum Sander a big "thumbs up" and says it saves him 50% on sanding time.

My two Woodmaster Molder/Planers and my Woodmaster Drum Sander work real well together.  I wanted to reduce setup time.  Your setup time is key to making more money.  This way I have dedicated machines with very little setup time.  If someone comes in and requests something I am able to do that with a minimal amount of set up time.

I bought the larger planer because I do buy all rough-cut lumber and I wanted to be able to plane panels for high-end furniture.  I also want to be able to make bench tops.  Of course once they are planed you are going to want to run them through the sander and there is nothing better than to run them through that drum sander knowing that you wont have to do any touch up work on it.  It really helps me out and saves me a lot of time.

Woodmaster gives him an edge on the competition

There are very few guys in this area that have as much equipment as I do so that gives me an edge.  I can offer practically anything out of my shop and there aren’t too many people around here that can do that.  I can plane rough material, all the way up to 25” panels. I can run molding; I can make cabinets and doors.  All at the quality that customers are looking for.

What do I think of Woodmaster? Nothing but good. The quality is there, the machines are well built, and the warranties are good. I’m very satisfied with Woodmaster.”

— Tim Ziegler, Foreston MN

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HALF A MILE of log cabin siding is a lot of siding! Walter made it by having his own trees sawn into boards, drying them, then passing them through is Woodmaster Molder/Planer.

It’s a tough economy these days so it’s especially rewarding to hear from the many Woodmaster woodworkers who’re finding ways to slash production time while increasing quality of their work. Walter Ostrander, from Michigan, tells his story.

“I do woodworking for a living, everything from beds to picture frames. I recently ran about a half a mile of log cabin siding. I have a sawyer come in with his bandsaw mill and cuts boards from my trees. I put them in a solar kiln, plane them, and go from there. I take my wood from start to finish so it’s pure profit.

“The name of the game is TIME.”

When you run log cabin siding, you're removing as much as 40% of a board. That means your machine has to have guts - and plenty of it. Every Woodmaster comes with rugged USA-MADE motors to handle tough jobs like this...and delicate ones like making satin-smooth molding, too! Variable Feed Rate is the secret.

When you’re making log cabin siding, you’re really taking off a lot of wood in one pass. I get a lot more planed in less time.  I haven’t had any problems with it.  No downtime at all.  My capability is better; I can take more off a board with it.  Time is the name of the game for me, that’s what I’m saving, time.  I can take more of a cut off of a board and my Woodmaster makes it fast and easy.

It has two separate motors, one that drives the feed rate and one that drives the cutting head.  I love that variable feed rate feature.  I have another planer but it doesn’t have variable speed like my Woodmaster does.  It’s a feature that comes in handy.

Tired of messing with Chinese junk

I wanted an American machine. I’m getting tired of messing with Chinese junk. I wanted something heavy duty that could take abuse. The others are foreign and chintzy with a lot of plastic. I don’t care for that. The Woodmaster is good and solid. I’ve been very happy with my decision. With an American machine, when I want a part, I pick up the phone and I get it.

(Editor’s note: Woodmaster’s TOLL FREE phone number is 1-800-821-6651.)

“They pretty well straightened me out…”

Here's Walter Ostrander in his shop with his Woodmaster. "It paid for itself in about a year," he says. Now he wants a bigger one.

The company has been great.  I have had no problem whatsoever. Nothing has ever broken, but I did call them up when I was making that siding a month ago.  I called with questions and their tech guys pretty well straightened me out and told me some tricks of the trade. I was real happy; they were helpful when I called.

I don’t like the business side of woodworking, but it’s taking off. I build high quality pieces, if I build something; it’s going to last forever. That’s what I try to do.  I build it as if I was going to buy it. My Woodmaster is an important part of my shop for turning out work like that.

Removing 40% of a board in 1 pass

Down the road, I’m going to buy the bigger one. I want to start doing doors and bigger stuff, plus I want more power in case I do any more of that siding. I don’t have any qualms about it. I’m real happy I bought it. It gets used pretty hard some days. With that siding, I was taking 40% of the wood off in one pass, that’s hard on a machine but it did it.

My Woodmaster paid for itself in about a year. I use it more and more as time goes on. I get more planed in less time and I can take off more wood per pass with it than with others. I only wish I’d bought a bigger Woodmaster.”

— Walter Ostrander, Millington MI

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Many Americans are under stress these days — the stress of everyday living compounded by the difficulties of today’s tough economy. Here’s how one Ohio family took a double dose of adversity and turned it into a profitable and rewarding business.

Larry (left) and Chris Perkins run 3 Star Molding in New Philadelphia, Ohio. Three years in, they've got plenty of work supplying molding they make on their two Woodmasters to a nearby manufacturer who sells to national retail chain stores.

Adversity hit the Perkins family of New Philadelphia, Ohio pretty hard over the past few years. First, Mrs. Perkins passed away. Then, the local steel mill closed down. There went Larry Perkins job — the one he’d held for over 30 years.

The Perkins are a close family and son, Chris, had a bright idea. “I had a Woodmaster 718 Molder/Planer I’d bought a few years earlier,” Chris told us. “Dad was looking for other work and I started thinking we could put the Woodmaster to work.”

Here's the Perkins' Woodmaster 718 set up to run molding. They buy stock precut to size and run it through their Woodmasters to mold it to their customers' spec.

They make up to $100 an hour

This father-and-son business makes thousands of feet of premium quality molding on their two Woodmaster Molder/Planers.

Today, Chris and Larry are in the molding business. They run “3 Star Molding” out of Chris’s 25’ x 60’ garage…and business is great. “We can make up to $100 an hour on some molding patterns where we charge by the hour. Others we charge by the foot and can make up to 43¢ a lineal foot.”

Chris’s business connections made startup pretty simple. “I work full time for Marlite; a manufacturer that make all kinds of wooden wall panel systems. I help design Marlite’s new products, build prototypes, test them out, and troubleshoot in the field when needed. I started thinking we should bid on making molding for Marlite — we might get the contract if our prices were low enough.”

Part time job with full time income

Three years in business and Chris and Larry are already selling thousands of feet of molding to national retail chains like Pilot Travel Centers, Firehouse Subs, Jersey Mike's, Ruby Tuesday, Texas Roadhouse, and many more.

The price was right and, “Marlite said go ahead,” says Chris. “That’s how we got started. Now I’m in business with my dad. He’s in the shop running molding every day. I work at Marlite from 6 am to 2:30. When I get home I help him, sometimes until 8 pm. Working with Dad’s my part time job with full time income.”

“Dad and I make molding out of oak, poplar, and maple. We also make crown molding,” says Chris. “Our average order is usually about 1,500 lineal feet. Large orders have been for 20,000 lineal feet of molding.”

“We did a big order for Pilot Travel Centers; they’re remodeling all their stores. We make molding for Firehouse Subs, Jersey Mike’s, Ruby Tuesday, Texas Roadhouse, and more. They’re all chain restaurants. We just took an order today for 9,500 lineal feet going to Japan, all out of poplar. They ordered some coves and some 3/8” S4S – surfaced four sides.”

“We’re talking with another manufacturer now. They make cornices for over windows. We did a test run for them of a product that’s supposed to go in 266 stores. And they have another customer that has 800 stores. We sell some molding on Craigslist and eBay and we’ll sell some locally to the public. Everybody knows we make it and it’s a lot cheaper than Lowe’s® and Home Depot®. We’re the lowest cost around.”

Keeping costs LOW is their strategic advantage.

“Being a small operation – just me and my dad – we can afford to have low prices. We have a nice niche.” 3 Star Molding is two men and two Woodmasters — Chris’s original 718 and a 712. “When we started, we saw we were going to need another Woodmaster. Dad will run wood through one Woodmaster and I’ll flip it and run the other side through our other Woodmaster. Then we put it on the forklift, wrap it up, and load it on the trailer.”

“When we bid on jobs we come in a lot less than our competitors,” Chris told us. “We find every way to keep costs down – like having our lumber delivered ready to mold. It’s cheaper that way because you have to figure extra operations dull our knives, use time, and use electricity.”

When they started, the Perkins ripped wide boards into strips for molding. “But our first order was for 9,500 feet of chair rail,” says Chris. “We were buying everything rough and by the time we ripped it, we didn’t have enough room with all the cutoffs.” Chris says, “These days, it’s easier and just as cheap to buy 3/4″ S4S and just profile it. It’s already got good edges on it. We just mount the open end knife and run it through.”

Chris shares more cost-saving tricks of the trade

• Eliminate sanding — “We’re running one piece at a time. We have a 9” dual-knife head on the Woodmaster with two corrugated molding knives in it. It’s better than a single knife:  you get better quality out of it that way. We can go 12-1/2 feet a minute and get a fine enough finish we don’t have to sand it. If you’re going faster on bigger machines, you need to sand. Going at our speed, we don’t have to sand and that saves time and money.”

• Recycle scrap — We create a lot of sawdust, a lot of it poplar. I have folks who come and get it for bedding for horses and cows. But we’re going to buy a pellet-making machine – we’re going to start turning our sawdust into pellets. We’ve already got people who say they’ll buy them. Meanwhile, we heat the shop and the whole house by burning scraps.

• No salespeople — 3 Star Molding sells to manufacturers, and the manufacturers do the selling and shipping. “My fiancé does web design,” says Chris. “She posted our 3 Star Molding online and when customers type in ‘molding’ our name pops up.

 • 5 times more business over same month last year — “Our business is moving right along. We’ve been in it 3 years and each year we’re getting bigger and bigger. In just the first few weeks of this month we did five times what we did in the whole month, same month last year. If all goes well, we’d like to build a bigger building.”

They’ve got all the work they can handle

It all started when Chris received an advertisement about Woodmaster. “It said, ‘You can make money with a Woodmaster’ – I asked for information and they sent it to me. Woodmasters are good machines. They’re not $20-30,000 machines, obviously. But for the price, they’re good. We use them harder than most people do.”

Chris adds, “We don’t have a website. We’ve got enough work now, I’m afraid if we had a website we’d get more than we can handle. Everything’s word of mouth and that’s plenty enough.”

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Mike Crowder made $96,000 with his Woodmaster during what many call the worst economic times since the Great Depression. If Mike can, you can, too.

With the nation in what many call the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, one young woodworker is turning hands-on woodworking ability and online savvy into profits.

Mike Crowder, 27, of Indianapolis, reports, “I made $96,000 last year, working out of my garage.” Mike’s road to prosperity “happened almost by accident,” he says, and came when his other business interests took a bad turn.

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Bad economy brought great opportunity

“I’ve been in the home remodeling business for over two years,” says Mike. “When the economy went bad, my business really started to taper off.”

That’s when Mike got ingenious. He owned a Woodmaster Molder/Planer, a woodworking machine that turns rough-cut lumber into finished wood products including molding and decorative wood trim. Mike made some molding and advertised it on Craigslist.com, a free online classified ad website. “It sold out the first day,” says Mike. Mike made and advertised more molding and the same thing happened. “That second batch sold out in 24 hours,” he said.

Today, Mike’s one of thousands of men and women who profitably market goods and services online. His success surprised him at first. “It was a shocker that eBay would work so well for me,” he says.

You don’t need a website to sell online

Today, many websites make it easy for individuals to sell items online. Common sales-oriented sites include Craigslist, a free classified ad site; and eBay, an online auction site. Of particular interest to woodworkers like Mr. Crowder is Woodfinder.com, a searchable database of wood suppliers.

Here are some of Mike's popular products. His fluted casing "sells like hotcakes." Mike also makes corner blocks to match his crown molding. Blocks like these make installing molding easy because they eliminate having to make compound angle cuts.

“It sells like hotcakes”

Mike’s bread and butter is 3-1/4” crown molding. When that took off, he added almost two dozen other profiles. One of his most popular profiles is 3” fluted casing. “It sells like hotcakes,” Mike says. “I sell it in casing sets: two legs, a header, and two rosettes as a set. You can get more money for the sets than you can for just the straight runs.”

Mike has competition from other woodworkers but few compete on eBay. Buying raw materials direct from the sawmill helps Mike’s business, too. “I order a few thousand board feet at a time and they deliver it to me,” he reports. “Oak’s my best seller but I’m starting to get into cherry. This week, I shipped 1,000 board feet of cherry to Oregon.”

Here's the young entrepreneur hard at work toward his next $96,000 thanks to his ingenuity, dedication, hard work...and his Woodmaster Molder/Planer.

Early success

Mike’s business grew fast. “A year after I bought my first 718 Woodmaster Molder/Planer I bought my second one,” he says. “When I got into production, it became obvious that I needed an efficient setup. I set it up as a dedicated rip saw and if I need one more piece, my ripsaw’s right there.”

Mike reports his first Woodmaster paid for itself within the first few weeks of full time production. “That’s not unusual,” says Will Johnson, President of Woodmaster Tools, Inc. “When a woodworker is making $30 an hour with one of our machines, it doesn’t take long for the machine to pay back its purchase price and a whole lot more.”

250% profit

Mike quoted a recent renovation job at $13,000. To quote his jobs, Mike figures how much material’s needed and adds 20%, then multiplies his cost by  2.5 to cover time and materials.

Curved molding is some of Mike’s highest profit work. “I just did curved molding for a 4-foot window and charged $75 per arch. There was probably less than $5 worth of wood in it.”

Big plans

Mike plans to grow his business. “I’d like to get a bigger building and a third Woodmaster. I’ll keep advertising for local business. I’m offering contractors 25% off to try me out and give me a shot to earn their business.”

Statistically, people aren’t moving these days; they’re staying in their homes and renovating or remodeling them. Mike’s success is proof — wood products made by enterprising men offer great opportunity in tough times.

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Here's something you don't see every day -- a genuine log cabin travel trailer. The Parmers renovated it with log cabin siding outside and custom paneling inside...all made with their Woodmaster Molder/Planer.

We hear this question a lot these days. “How can I make a good living in these economic times?” Robert Parmer, owner of Parmer Lumber Company of Dawson, Georgia has found an answer.

Robert Parmer in his shop with his "4-Way Money Maker" -- his Woodmaster Molder/Planer

“My son and I make a living with our Woodmaster Molder/Planer and our TimberKing sawmill. We work with them about 10 hours a day, five or six days every week.”

Father & son business started with a TimberKing sawmill

The Parmers have a long history manufacturing wood products. “I have 42 years sawmill experience,” Robert told us, “and my son has 18 or so years.” Robert had 37 employees for about 25 years. “It was just about driving me crazy,” he says. “Now instead of 37, it’s just me and my son. We are enjoying life now.”

“We know sawmills. We looked at one with a cantilever head (cutting head supported on one side only) and my experience said that would be a problem over time.” Instead, he chose the TimberKing’s 4-post cutting head with support at each of its four corners.

The Parmers saw logs into high quality roughcut lumber with a TimberKing sawmill and a Talon edger. The TimberKing Sawmill saws out the boards; the Talon Edger removes the raw edges (“wane”) from the boards. Acquiring logs is easy, says Robert. “We saw roughcut lumber from trees in a 150-mile radius,” he says. “I’ve been in this business all my life so I know how to get a log.”

1,500% value added with a Woodmaster

“Value added” is the name of the game in the wood business. Each time you perform an additional process, you add value. Sawing logs into boards adds value; edging them adds value; but turning them into saleable wood products adds far more.

Just about the most valuable wood product you can make is wood molding. Starting with a board worth $5, a motivated woodworker can manufacture $75 worth of wood molding. That’s a 1,500% increase in value!

Woodmaster & TimberKing: sister companies

Robert's been in the lumber sawing business a long, long time. When he and his son started their own business, they chose a TimberKing sawmill because it has a rugged 4-post head

To add value, Robert added woodworking equipment: a Woodmaster Molder/Planer with a Woodmaster 3-Side Molding System. “When I learned that TimberKing and Woodmaster were sister companies, I knew Woodmaster was the Molder/Planer I wanted.” Product reviews by Woodmaster owners clinched the deal. “Another reason I bought a Woodmaster was because of the things other owners had written about them.  If they liked them that much I figured I would be happy with one, too.”

But, ultimately, it came down to service. “TimberKing took care of us very well. Their sister company, Woodmaster, makes a good product but the main thing is the service — the speed of service and the quality of people they have manning the phones.  If you have a problem they will tell you how to fix it, and they haven’t been wrong yet!  That is important when you are thousands of miles away in the middle of an order and something tears up.”

Here’s real business savvy

Added to the Woodmaster Molder/Planer, the Woodmaster 3-Side Molding System allows the woodworker to shape 3 sides of his workpiece in a single pass. The Woodmaster cuts the top surface; 2 Milwaukee routers shape both sides.

“I wanted to add value to our roughcut lumber and I figured we could sell some molding and paneling,” says Robert. “We make V-groove paneling out of cedar, cherry, and cypress and molding to match. If a man buys cedar paneling, he wants cedar crown and baseboard to match and you can’t go down to Lowe’s and buy cedar molding.”

Robert explained further. “We have high dollar items here with custom paneling and molding. We get a good dollar for them and we’ve kind of cornered the market down here. I don’t know of anywhere else you can buy these things here.”

The Parmers got a 3-Side Molding System at the same time as they got their Woodmaster Molder/Planer. It’s an add-on “outrigger” piece of equipment added to the Woodmaster’s outfeed. It enables the Woodmaster to shape three sides in a single pass. Molding knives in the Woodmaster’s cutterhead shape the top side; two heavy-duty Milwaukee routers shape two more sides; and variable-speed feed rollers move the workpiece through…all in one pass.

Parmer Lumber Co. mills roughcut lumber and adds tremendous value by turning boards into finished lumber with their Woodmaster...then building high-value items like this beautiful custom deck.

“We make log cabin siding with the Woodmaster Molder/Planer and the Woodmaster 3-Side Molding System,” Robert told us. It’s a complicated shape but Robert cuts the entire profile in one pass. “I can make one pass and make the whole thing, rabbet cut and all. There’s no reason to dress the backside. If I’m doing the board for myself, I don’t bother with the backside because its hidden and you have exact thickness all the way down the board.  But if it’s for a customer, I run it through another time to dress the back. I’m very well pleased with Woodmaster’s double router system.”

Bigger shop, more Woodmasters

If you're ever in Dawson, Georgia, stop and say hello to Robert and his son at Parmer Lumber Co.

“Log cabin siding is going real well,” says Robert. They’ve built three display buildings with it but their most ambitious log cabin siding project is a mobile home they renovated. “We stripped it down to the studs,” says Robert. “Then we put log cabin siding on the outside and V-groove cherry, cypress, and cedar V-groove paneling inside.”

When we last spoke with Robert, he had big plans for the future. “We are seriously thinking about growing.  In fact we are going to build a bigger shop and add one or possibly two more molder planers, and they will be Woodmasters.”

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“I do business on a handshake. If that  isn’t good enough for a customer, they might as well get someone else. I can be that independent.”

Among many other things in his woodworking business, Bill Grom makes curved molding. His "Quality product, price, and service" policies have served him well

“When I retired, I thought a Woodmaster would help me get a little trim and molding business going. I knew a lot of builders locally and they gave me a try. It just started rolling from there. Last year, I was making trim for eight houses at the same time!

$10 to $38 a foot

I started making crown and base molding plus corner blocks for each — the blocks go in inside and outside corners so homeowners don’t have to make compound angle cuts. I made 200 blocks for one job. I sell curved molding at $38 a foot, and straight molding for $10 or $15.

Business has snowballed and I’m as busy as I want to be. I’ve got my hands full. I provide quality product, price, and service. If you can provide those things, you’ll stay busy no matter what the economy is.”

Bill tells his story…

“I was a teacher and guidance counselor for 39 years and figured I’d need something to do when I retired so I wouldn’t be under my wife’s feet all the time. That’s when I got Woodmaster information about the machines and making trim.

I started making crown corner blocks for do it yourselfers. People are afraid of making compound miter cuts. These blocks just go up into the corner and the crown molding butts to it in at 90 degrees so there are no angles to cut except scribing it into the block if the walls aren’t square. I make crown molding to match with the Woodmaster.

Business snowballed. Right now, I’m doing trim for a restaurant downtown. I do a lot of work that nobody wants to mess with. We’re working on a lot of the detail work that I can do with the Woodmaster.

Like so many men, Bill Grom can't quite retire -- he's finding success in a second career as a Woodmaster woodworker

Custom knives from Woodmaster

I make bullnose corner blocks to match the base molding I make. They’re hard to find. I worked with Woodmaster to design my own knives. Woodmaster made me pattern knives from my drawings for base blocks and outside corners. I just got another knife from them so I have both 90 and 45 degree bullnose blocks.

I can buy knives cheaper other places but since I’ve started with Woodmaster I’ve had really good working relationships with everyone I’ve worked with there. I really enjoy it. I toured Woodmaster and put faces to the names of people I’d worked with and it was good to work with these people.

“There’s money to be made in curved molding.”

I also make curved molding in 3 or 4 different arcs and ellipses. I profile the curved molding on the Woodmaster. I got a curved molding jig from Woodmaster; I also made my own as well as my own patterns and templates.

Curved molding is labor intensive. I laminate everything. The finished product is really nice. There’s money to be made in it. Around Kansas City, they get $70 a foot for it. The most I could get around here would be in Telluride in the ski areas in the condos – they pay about $38 a foot. I sell straight molding for $10 or $15 a foot. I’m not in it to make a killing but to get the word our about the uniqueness and craftsmanship of what I do. It’s hard to find.

His winning policy: provide a great product, at a low price, back it with great service

A lot of what I make goes to homeowners who are their own general contractors, and a lot to contractors who’re building houses themselves. I sell a little to cabinet shops but not much. Lumberyards get a little ticked at me because I can produce the same product for a lot less money and they get fired up once in awhile.

Ingeniously simple? Or simply ingenious? Bill's corner blocks make it simple for DIY'ers to mount his molding -- compound angle cuts are eliminated.

For example, a customer went to the lumberyard for some Anderson 2-1/4” curved molding for a door was about $130. He asked me and I said I could do it for about $50.

Home Depot marks up their trim 300%. That’s where I check my prices. They get $3.50 a foot for crown molding; I make mine for about 50 cents and I make money at it. They have a huge overhead I provide price, product, and service – that counts for a lot.

Word of mouth works

I don’t have a storefront. I live in a subdivision with a small shop out back, about 16 x 30’ so when I get 16’ material, I have to open the door to run it through my Woodmaster. I do business out of the house and advertise in the phonebook. But I’ve cut back on advertising because I don’t want to get more business than I can handle. Right now, word of mouth is how I get most of my business.

Word of mouth works. I do fireplace surrounds and mantles. I had a woman called me from 250 miles away. She somehow got my name and number. The world gets awful small the more you talk.

“The spiral cutterhead prevents tearouts. It works.”

I have two recommendations for anyone buying a Woodmaster: if you’re going to do much at all. Get the forward/reverse switch for the feed rollers, and get the spiral cutterhead.

The cutterhead was about $1200 but I do a lot of alder and it tears out a lot, no matter how slow you go. Woodmaster recommended the spiral cutterhead. I got it and it works. If you’re going to do a lot of planing, get it. It prevents tearout and I saved most of what I paid for it in about 6 months simply because I’m not wasting material now with tearouts. It works great; it’s off the charts.

Planer blades go head-on with the grain. The spiral cutterhead goes diagonally to the grain. If I knew then what I knew now, I’d have gotten it when I bought the machine.

I like the forward/reverse kit. I don’t know how people would do without it. When you’re trying to size something up for thickness when you’re planing, you have to run the piece all the way through to get the depth. If you’re too deep, you’ve lost that piece of wood. With the forward/reverse feature, I just run it in a bit, then back out, then put a micrometer on it, then run it through. It’s efficient; you save waste and time, too. It works when you’re matching molding, too. Just run it in, back it out, and you can see if it matches.

“I can be THAT INDEPENDENT!”

The key components for SUCCESS as an independent Woodmaster woodworker? A good head on your shoulders, good ideas, persistence...and a Woodmaster!

I never take money up front. I want a check when I deliver, before I unload the order from my truck. It’s really been good. I haven’t lost any money doing business this way.

Business is based on relationships. I do business on a handshake. If that  isn’t good enough for a customer, they might as well get someone else. I can be that independent. I don’t need contracts.”

— Bill Grom, Bill’s Custom Trim, Hotchkiss, CO

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Howard Gelles turned his woodworking hobby -- making red cedar furniture -- into a lucrative full time business...and business is great!

Here's Howard at work in his woodworking shop. He planes workpieces on his Woodmaster Molder/Planer (right) then sands them on his Woodmaster Drum Sander (left).

Imagine working at your favorite hobby and getting paid for it. Think it’s impossible? Woodworker, Howard Gelles, is doing it full time…and loving it.

“It started as a hobby but today it’s my full time business. I manufacture red cedar outdoor furniture in the Adirondack style. I own the shop and operate it by myself — a 1-man operation. My website is http://www.custommade.com/by/cedarfurniturecraftsman

Faster production & better quality with his 2 Woodmasters

I bought the Woodmaster Molder/Planer first and use it to plane rough cut lumber. I often order rough cut lumber from the mill, either kiln dried or air dried. I buy rough cut for price reasons. Planed lumber is $1 more a foot. If I buy 1,000 feet, that would be $1,000 more for the order of lumber. For the last project I did, I ordered 1,000 lineal feet of lumber. If I’d ordered planed lumber, it would have added at least $1000.

Every foot I plane I’m saving a dollar. If I had someone plane it for me, they’d charge a setup charge, too. I size lumber to the exact thickness I want on the planer. The quality of the planed surface is very smooth.

I plane all 4 sides through the Woodmaster Molder/Planer. I run faces and edges. I stand the boards up and plane the edges. It saves a lot of time. If I had to run it through the edger, it would add more time. I can run two boards at a time through the Woodmaster; I can’t do that on a jointer. I run 8’ lengths, 2” thick lumber two at a time on edge. I use a guide to hold them upright. I’m doing all 4 sides on the planer.

Then I bought the Woodmaster Drum Sander. Each chair I build has about 30 parts. Before I got the Woodmaster 3875 Drum Sander, I had to use a palm sander on all those pieces, both sides. That got to be very tedious. When I got the Woodmaster Drum Sander, I could run all those pieces through in less than 20 minutes. With the palm sander, I’d be doing hours and hours of sanding. That’s a big time savings.

The Woodmaster Drum Sander has just been a lifesaver. My productivity is boosted many times over. If you have a handheld sander, and stay too long in one place you’re going to get an uneven surface. With the Woodmaster sander, it goes through at a steady pace and you don’t have a problem with unevenness. That improves the quality of your product.

Industrial machine performance at a fraction of the cost

Without a doubt, my Woodmasters are the best tools in my shop, in use every day. They work wonderfully. For a wide belt sander, you’re looking at $6 – $9000 for a big Powermatic. You can get the same results with a Woodmaster. I’ve seen both operate and I don’t see any difference in the output.

The Infinitely Variable Feed Rate, 0 – 16 feet per minute (FPM) – is a big help. I like the steady variable feed on the Woodmasters. I have a lot more control of the pieces going through the machine. If I want to slow down to get a better finish, I can do that.

I’d tell anybody that’s looking for a commercial-quality sander or planer – go with the Woodmaster. I’ve told several people I know that these are the best machines for the money. Woodmaster, keep up the good work.”

— Howard Gelles, Cedar Furniture Craftsman, Knoxville MD

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We at Woodmaster have about “had it” with the stranglehold today’s economy has on American woodworkers! We can’t change the country’s economy but we CAN help individuals improve their own personal economic wellbeing.

We’ve seen it again and again: when we put a Woodmaster Molder/Planer in the hands of a woodworker who truly wants a better life and is willing to work for it he improves his financial picture … if he’s serious and willing to put his back into it.

You can kick today’s economy in the pants!

You can take charge of your earning power instead of letting some boss tell you he’s cutting your hours. Woodworker, Mike Crowder, made $96,000 in 2009 – the year the bottom fell out. Today, Mike’s cashing in with his Woodmaster making Rope Molding, one of the highest-profit molding patterns that can be made. See videos of Mike at work on our website, www.WoodmasterTools.com.

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• How to turn a $5 rough cut board into $75 worth of molding – That’s 1,500% value added.

• 9 ways you benefit from owning your own business – Writing off your Woodmaster as a business expense is just one!

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Woodmaster owner, Tom Bardwell, told us of his business startup success with the 4-machines-in-1 Woodmaster. “In today’s economy, there are even more reasons than usual to buy a Woodmaster,” he said. “It’s one of the few products that, by itself, can let you develop a viable manufacturing business in your garage. I just think there’s no better package out there for an entrepreneur to use to launch a business on a small scale. If you’re passionate enough to develop it into something that’s income producing, and keep with it, it’ll happen.”

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It’s literally 4 machines in 1. Set it up as a PLANER to surface rough cut lumber; a gang rip saw to cut multiple molding blanks; a drum sander for satin-smooth finishes; and of course as a HIGH CAPACITY molder to cut any molding pattern you want.

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The biggest advantage you get from owning your own molding business is FREEDOM. For some, it means the freedom to supplement their income making molding a few hours in the evening and on weekends. Others throw themselves into it completely, making molding full time.

It’s all up to you. But any way you slice it, when you own your own molding business you get the freedom to choose your own hours, choose what you make, how you make it, how you sell it and to whom, how much you charge, and more.

This e-book contains everything you need to know to start and succeed in your own molding business. We offer it as a thank you to the American woodworkers who’ve made Woodmaster Tools a success…and as a helping hand to the MILLIONS more who’d like a bigger slice of the pie, especially in today’s economy!

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