Now Forming — Founding Guilds Nationwide

A small group of makers.
One serious
workshop.

Workshop Guild brings together a small group of founding members in your city to operate a shared industrial space — stocked with the professional tools most makers can't justify buying alone.

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Workshop Disciplines
$125–$250*
Est. Monthly per Member
$0
to Join the Waitlist
The Guild Model

Simple by design.
Powerful in practice.

A small group of founding members splits the cost of a shared industrial space and fills it with the tools they actually need. Member-run. Transparent costs. No corporate landlord.

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Join the Waitlist

Tell us your city and what you want to build. We use waitlist data to identify where guilds are ready to form.

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Hit the Threshold

When a small group of founding members in your area commit, we open a local guild.

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Dues Cover the Costs

Monthly membership dues cover rent, utilities, insurance, and consumables. Every member knows exactly where their money goes — costs are posted transparently each month.

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Members Run the Guild

Equipment purchases, rule changes, and space improvements are decided collectively. Members vote, operators execute. No corporate landlord — just shared overhead and a community that builds together.

What's Inside

Nine workshops.
Build what you want.

One membership gets you into every area, every day. Use one workshop or all nine — no requirements, no per-use fees, no gatekeeping.

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Wood Shop

From rough lumber to finished furniture. Full dust collection, stationary power tools, and finishing space.

Table Saw Bandsaw Jointer Planer Router Table
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Metal Shop

Weld, cut, grind, and fabricate. Everything you need to work with steel, aluminum, and more.

MIG/TIG Welder Plasma Cutter Chop Saw Angle Grinder
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Auto Bay

Oil changes to engine swaps. A proper 2-post lift, air tools, and a full diagnostic setup.

2-Post Lift Air Compressor Diagnostics Floor Jacks
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Electronics Lab

Solder, prototype, and test. A fully equipped bench for electronics, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and beyond.

Soldering Stations Oscilloscope Power Supplies Microcontrollers
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3D Printing & Laser Cutting

Design it. Print it. Cut it. Access to FDM printers, resin printers, and a full-size laser cutter.

FDM Printers Resin Printer Laser Cutter Vinyl Cutter
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Crafting Studio

Sewing, embroidery, vinyl, and jewelry. The tools that turn creative hobbies into side businesses.

Sewing Machines Embroidery Machine Cricut Jewelry Bench
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CNC & Precision Machining

Repeatability and precision that hand tools can't touch. From complex part runs to one-off custom pieces.

CNC Router Manual Mill Metal Lathe Drill Press
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Blacksmithing & Forge

Raw steel to finished piece. Knife making, decorative ironwork, and everything forged by hand.

Propane Forge Anvil Post Vise Hardy Tools
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Ceramics & Pottery

Functional pottery, sculptural work, or anything in between. The kind of studio access most people never get.

Kick Wheel Electric Wheel Kilns Glazing Tools
Why It Works

Members decide.
Members run it.

Workshop Guild isn't a gym membership you forget to cancel. Members collectively decide what gets purchased, how the space is run, and how dues are structured — not customers, but the makers actually operating the place.

Affordable dues. Members set dues to cover actual costs — rent, utilities, insurance, and a small reserve. No markups, no margins. Any surplus stays in the space.
Member-run governance. Each guild is managed by its members. Operators handle the lease and administration; decisions are made collectively.
Who Joins

If you build things,
this is for you.

🔧

Home Mechanics

Skip the driveway. Access a real lift, air tools, and diagnostic equipment without the dealership markup.

🪵

Woodworkers

Your apartment or garage doesn't have room for a jointer and planer. The guild does.

🔩

Metal Fabricators

MIG welders, plasma cutters, and grinders — available whenever your project needs them.

🖨️

Digital Makers

3D printers, laser cutters, and electronics benches. Prototype fast without capital outlay.

🧵

Crafters & Artists

Jewelry, sewing, embroidery, Cricut — a professional studio without the studio lease.

🎓

Apprentices

Never touched a lathe or a forge? Structured tool certification means real hands-on training, not just building access.

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Founding cohort per city — two tiers, one mission

Founding Member · Spots 1–15
$750 deposit · Board-eligible · Rate locked for life
Charter Member · Spots 16–35
$500 deposit · Founding-era rate locked · Priority access

Each city needs 35 founding and charter members to commit before we sign the lease. Founding members (first 15) are board-eligible and set the rules. Charter members (spots 16–35) lock in the same founding-era rate with priority access. The waitlist is free — your spot in the founding cohort is what matters.

Claim Your Spot — It's Free
Active Markets

Now forming in
these cities.

We're actively building founding member lists in these markets. When a small group of makers in an area commit, we open the doors. Join the waitlist for your city — or tell us where you are and we'll add it to the map.

Midwest
Toledo, OH Detroit, MI Ann Arbor, MI Flint, MI Lansing, MI Kalamazoo, MI Saginaw, MI Muskegon, MI Flat Rock, MI Belleville, MI Canton, OH Peoria, IL Springfield, IL South Bend, IN Evansville, IN Terre Haute, IN Green Bay, WI Davenport, IA Duluth, MN Rochester, MN Sioux Falls, SD Fargo, ND Erie, PA
East Coast
Scranton, PA Allentown, PA Wilmington, DE Norfolk, VA Wilmington, NC Fayetteville, NC Myrtle Beach, SC Pensacola, FL Tallahassee, FL Daytona Beach, FL
Nationally
Tulsa, OK Oklahoma City, OK Little Rock, AR Fayetteville, AR Baton Rouge, LA Shreveport, LA Jackson, MS Memphis, TN Knoxville, TN Savannah, GA Macon, GA Augusta, GA Roanoke, VA Charleston, WV Huntington, WV Lubbock, TX Corpus Christi, TX McAllen, TX Amarillo, TX Waco, TX Beaumont, TX Laredo, TX Las Cruces, NM Columbia, SC Greenville, SC Billings, MT Rapid City, SD Mobile, AL
Don't see your city? Join the waitlist anyway — every signup helps us prioritize the next market.
Early Access

Get notified when a
guild opens near you.

Tell us where you are and what you want to build. We'll reach out when a guild is forming in your area — or when you have enough neighbors to start one.

No spam. No obligation. We'll only reach out when something is forming near you.

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You're on the list.

We'll be in touch when a Workshop Guild is forming in your area. Keep building.

Questions

How does this actually work?

What is Workshop Guild, exactly?
Workshop Guild is a national network of community-run shared workshop spaces. Each local guild is started by a small group of founding members who collectively rent an industrial space, split the fixed costs, and share access to professional-grade tools. No corporate landlord — just shared overhead and a community that builds together.
How much does membership cost?
Dues depend on your local guild's space and headcount. With a small group of founding members, expect $125–$250/month* — covering your share of rent, utilities, insurance, and consumables. As the guild grows, dues drop.
What does the waitlist mean? Am I committing to anything?
Joining the waitlist is completely free and non-binding. We collect interest data by city to identify where guilds are ready to form. When enough makers in your area have signed up, we reach out to gauge founding member commitment — that's when a real decision happens.
What if there's no guild in my city yet?
Sign up anyway — your entry helps us prioritize your city. You can also indicate that you're interested in starting a guild. We're actively looking for founding organizers in new markets and will reach out to help you get one off the ground.
Who manages the space?
Each guild has a local operator who holds the lease and handles administration — typically one of the founding members. Members sign a Member Agreement and liability waiver. Day-to-day decisions about the space are made collectively. This is your shop, not ours.
What about insurance and liability?
Every guild requires commercial general liability insurance before any member uses equipment. Members sign a liability waiver as part of their Member Agreement. Tool-specific orientation sign-offs are required for stationary and high-risk equipment.