Machine Shop & Fabrication Appraisals
CNC, manual machining, welding, and full shop inventories.
Equipment assignments supported by strong documentation — data plates, service records, photographs — can be completed as desk appraisals anywhere in the world. Where physical inspection materially affects the conclusion, on-site work is performed throughout Arizona.
What drives the number
Shop equipment value depends heavily on control generation, tooling package, and whether the machine is currently in service. A machine under power with tooling is a materially different asset from the same model sitting disconnected on a pallet.
Commonly appraised
- CNC mills and lathes
- Manual machining equipment
- Welding and fabrication
- Press brakes and shears
- Saws, grinders, and finishing
- Tooling and workholding inventories
What we'll need from you
- Make, model, serial number, and control generation
- Whether currently installed and under power
- Tooling and accessory inventory
- Photographs including control panel and data plate
- Maintenance and spindle-hour records where available
Full facility inventories are quoted per engagement. Installed-and-in-service versus removed-and-sold are different value premises and produce different numbers.
| Scope | Typical fee |
|---|---|
| Single unit | $150 – $275 |
| 2–10 units | $225 – $350 |
| 11–50 units | $300 – $450 |
| Full facility inventory | quoted per engagement |
Related machinery & equipment assets
Common questions
Which value standard will you use?
It depends entirely on intended use. Fair market value, orderly liquidation value, forced liquidation value, and fair value in continued use produce very different numbers from the same asset. Selecting the wrong one is the single most common defect we see in equipment appraisals prepared elsewhere.
Can this be done without an on-site visit?
Often, yes. Where documentation is strong — data plates, service records, clear photographs — equipment can be appraised as a desk assignment anywhere in the world. Where condition or installation materially drives value, on-site inspection is performed throughout Arizona.
Can you appraise an entire facility?
Yes. Full inventories are quoted per assignment rather than per unit, and prior experience includes manufacturing plants, medical facilities, and municipal fleets.
Do you have specific equipment experience?
Yes — including machinery and equipment valuation work with B. Riley Advisory Services, and hands-on inventory and valuation of medical imaging, farm, and construction assets.
Ready for a number you can defend?
Tell us what you have and what it's for. You get a fixed written quote — never an hourly meter, never a sales call.
What the work actually looks like
Real assignments, client details removed — what each engagement actually turned on, rather than how it felt.
A house, a workshop of machine tools, a forty-year firearms collection and a stake in the family company — four disciplines that three appraisers had only partly covered. One engagement, one effective date, one set of assumptions.
A donation the regulations would have aggregated past the appraisal threshold, which the donor had assessed item by item. One qualified appraisal covering the group, itemized, signed inside the window the regulations allow.
An opposing report whose number was not obviously wrong — which is what made it dangerous. It failed on its own certification, and was answered section by section with an independent valuation to the correct definition of value.