Thread: wood wizz idea

Originally Posted by Jarrahrules

Hi guys.
I am thinking of buying a wood wizz and was wondering if anyone in the Gippsland area would pay me to machine/ sand thier benches, slabs, or burls.
If so please reply as i may buy one and get pleasure out of machining other peoples slabs etc.

JAMC

Yes Jamie for sure.

I have slabs drying and more slabs to mill, so if the price was right then down the track definatley.

PS the lathe work great.

Cheers

Jamie being a forumite, I'd use ya for slabs over there too

Well I did it. I bought a wood wizz. Just have to set it up now.

Don't know how much to charge but i hope to find out. Does anyone know????

Just fighting the fires at the moment and fixing the brother inlaws fences from his fires. so i havn't had time to set it up.

Regards
Jamie

Jamie a local guy around here charges $23 per square metre. He works it out on the biggest face, but he cleans up both faces to make the stick true, this includes sanding it down to 120 grit. Dunno how fast he does a square metre, but I reckon it takes less than an hour, maybe half an hour to do a square metre, so that'd work out around the $50 per hour mark.

Maybe you could start out on a hourly rate 'til you get a feel for how long it takes then change to an area rate later??

Hope it helps

pitty you wernt closer.

Originally Posted by Sigidi

Jamie a local guy around here charges $23 per square metre. He works it out on the biggest face, but he cleans up both faces to make the stick true, this includes sanding it down to 120 grit. Dunno how fast he does a square metre, but I reckon it takes less than an hour, maybe half an hour to do a square metre, so that'd work out around the $50 per hour mark.

Maybe you could start out on a hourly rate 'til you get a feel for how long it takes then change to an area rate later??

Hope it helps

I thought that i would be able to charge $80 per hr as this is the same price as a lucas mill. Both have abouit the same monetry outlay and not every one has a wood wizz.
I am a builder and can charge $60 per hr so i wouldn't charge less than that.

Regards
Jamie

i have seen the wood wizz doing a burl slab over 1m diamiter it took about 5 mins to plane it flat and about 2 mins to set up. they had to take 20mm of to get it flat.