The national mills
Fast, but every asset is a row in a database and you'll never get the appraiser on the phone.
An asset is worth a number. It's either right, or it isn't.
Lukes Werks brings clockmaker precision to the appraisal of machinery & equipment, and delivers it on the timeline modern industry actually needs. Built in Cabarrus County, German-precise, Carolina-fast.
The story
Precision is the family trade.
Our great-grandfathers were clockmakers, on our father's side and our mother's side both. They spent their working lives in the gears, measuring parts in hundredths of a millimeter, building movements that either kept time or didn't. There was no almost.
We were raised on that standard. The eye for tight tolerances and the habit of checking your own work get handed down, parent to child, the way a trade always has. We put it to work on machinery and equipment: an asset is worth a number, and that number is either defensible or it isn't.
Today we do that work in Cabarrus County, ten minutes from the race shops we serve. Same care our family has always taken, applied to machinery and equipment instead of clocks.
Their clocks still kept time eighty years later. That is the standard we were raised on, and the standard we hold every appraisal to.
Lukes Werks · Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Why we're different
The third option.
The market splits in two. We built the firm that doesn't make you choose.
The boutiques
Beautiful work, quoted at three weeks and priced like a consultant.
Lukes Werks
Boutique-quality work at mill-grade speed, because we built the process to do exactly that. You get the report back fast, without giving up the detail a lender or court will check.
Credentials
Built to be believed.
- USPAP-compliant, every report follows the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice.
- NEBB Certified Machinery & Equipment Appraiser (CMEA), recognized by lenders, the SBA and the IRS.
- Senior review on every assignment, assumptions, data and methodology confirmed before release.
- Reports built to defend, for lenders, auditors, the IRS and the courts.
Experience with the brands behind the machines & the banks behind the deals
Ameriprise
A track record across automotive, powersports, and the lenders who finance them.
Ready when you are
Put precision to work for you.
Start your request online, upload photos for a desktop appraisal, or tell us how many sites your assets sit on for an on-site visit.