Calvin, now that I know where you are located, I suggest you call Fergus or Liz in the Sacramento office of Felder (both are in sales) and see if Felder would have interest in taking the Felder gear on consignment. ???(916) 375-3190? ?They can probably look up the original invoice for the machine and give you specifics about it. ?
I also agree with the “you ask 10 people, you’ll get 10 different answers” sentiment. ?Decide how much work you want to do on this first. ?If you have the time to sell individual pieces, be prepared to take photos of the equipment and know some of the details for your advertising (year, condition, model numbers, accessories, power requirements, etc.). ?You will also get requests for “under power” demos. ? If you don’t want to do that level of work, I’d recommend donation to a local educational/training facility, or get an estate auction house involved. ?
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On Feb 17, 2025, at 3:32?PM, calvink69 via groups.io <calvink69@...> wrote:
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First off, thanks for so many thoughtful and timely responses. This is an impressive community.?
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@Karl - the links to the video on the slide and the details on separating the machine(s) are helpful. I hadn't realized that they could be separated.
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@David Best - the HQ number is helpful. Plus one on including this in your estate plan. Hindsight being 20/20 there are questions I wish I had asked about the shop ahead of time and/or arrangements I wish we had made. Dealing with all this now makes a hard time somewhat harder.?
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@Patrick Kane - the shop itself is roomy with plenty of space, but there is quite an incline once out the doors at the back. They got them in with a moving truck with a lift gate I believe. Both the combination machine and the bandsaw are on blocking. We're located in Washington state, in Paulsbo (close to Seattle).?
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@John Hinman - we have a great deal of very fine furniture to share with various family members. Cant think of many other hobbies that result in such a great legacy actually.?
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One last question. The shop consists of the Felder combination machine (731-03), Felder bandsaw (FB-40), a Bridgewood belt sander, a Jet dust collector, and too many misc. tools and accessories to list. I see places like world4machines to sell the individual machines. But we would quite frankly prefer for someone to come and take the whole shop. Not so much interested in getting top dollar on things as we are in having someone keep using them as they were previously used. Thoughts on any way to do that? Seems a bit commercial to just part the whole thing out a bit at a time.?
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Thx,
Calvin
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David P. Best