A plywood pegboard wall hung with clamps, a spring, and hand tools

tools on the wall · counted every Monday

Tools on the wall.

Forty benches. One wall. Two hundred and twelve tools on it.A maker hall, not an office. You rent a bench, not a desk. Everything on the wall is shared, labelled, and back on its hook by the time you leave, or you hear about it.

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01 · The wall

Hung, in order.

on the hook · of 212

HammerHook 01

WrenchHook 07

SawHook 12

ClampHook 19

ChiselHook 24

MalletHook 31

SquareHook 38

DrillHook 44

Hook 01 · The hammerEvery hook has a number, an outline, and a name. If the outline's empty at ten at night, we know who had it. The board by the door says.

A bright hall with a glass roof, plywood benches on a grey floor

02 · The hall

Forty benches. One roof.

benches, two metres each, plywood, replaced when they're wrecked.

hours. Your fob works at four in the morning. So does the wall.

212

tools, shared. Counted every Monday. Missing ones get a note on the board.

wall. Not a cage, not a cupboard. If you can reach it, you can use it.

The corner of a plywood table on yellow steel legs

A bench, not a desk.

You can clamp to it, drill into it, spill on it, and sand it back. It's plywood on steel. When it's finished, we cut it up for jigs and bolt on a new top.

Benches

Three ways to get a bench.

Same wall, same hall, same fob. The difference is how much of the bench is yours.

Monthly · your benchResidentOne bench, yours, 24 h, a locker under it

Leave the project out. Come back to it at midnight. Forty of these exist and thirty-six are taken.

£240 a month

Monthly · any free benchFloatingWhichever bench is clear, 24 h, a locker by the door

Clear it when you leave. Cheaper, and you meet more people, which some of us call a downside.

£140 a month

Single day · 08:00 to 22:00Day benchOne bench, one day, the wall, the dust extraction

For the job that won't fit in your kitchen. Book two days ahead. Bring ear defenders.

£28

The wall

Five rules for the wall.

Written on it, in paint, at eye height. They haven't changed since the first hook went in.

Spanners and pliers hung on a white pegboard

Back on the hookNot on the bench, not on the floor. On the hook with its number, before you leave.

Blunt it, say soChisels, blades, bits. Write it on the board. Somebody sharpens on Thursdays.

Nothing leavesNot overnight, not for an hour. If it's off the wall, it's in the hall.

Extraction onThe big machines don't start without it. That's not a rule, that's wiring.

Teach one thingIf someone asks how, show them. That's how you learned it. That's the membership fee we don't invoice.

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Book a bench.

Say which kind, and what you're making. We'll tell you which benches are near the extraction, which are near the window, and which one has the vice that actually holds.

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