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Canon Large Format Printer 44-inch large format printer ideal for high-quality art prints, signage, and other graphic needs
Epson Scanner & Silverfast Scanning Software The Epson scanner is an industry leading scanner capable of scanning up to 6400 dpi.
Photo Equipment Our photo equipment includes Nikon D800 and D5000 DSLR cameras, three Profoto wireless strobes, a freestanding 10' wide seamless backdrop, several tripods, reflectors, and more.
Roland SP300i Vinyl Printer The Roland SP-300i is great for printing banners and adhesive backed vinyl up to 30" wide.
Roland Vinyl Printer Ideal for printing banners and adhesive-backed vinyl up to 64" wide. Offers full-color CMYK printing using Eco-Solvent inks as well as precise contour cutting.
3D Printer: Lulzbot Mini The Lulzbot Mini is the perfect 3D printer for printing prototypes for your next project. Print Area: 6" x 6" x 6"
3D Printer: Lulzbot Taz 6 This Lulzbot Taz 6 is equipped with a standard extrusion assembly, which is capable of printing rigid materials.
Arduino Microcontrollers The Arduino UNO is the best board to get started with electronics and coding for microcontrollers.
Atten Solder Rework Station Variable temperature hot air rework solder station for SMD SMT soldering repair.
DC Power Supplies Benchtop power supplies are a convenient way to provide power and monitor current when prototyping.
Digital Multimeter Multimeters are used to accurately measure voltage, resistance, current, and continuity.
Digital Oscilloscope An oscilloscope creates a two-dimensional graph of voltage as a function of time.
Function Generator Outputs voltages which can vary over time, such as sine and sawtooth waves.
Siglent Digital Oscilloscope An oscilloscopes creates a two-dimensional graph of voltage as a function of time.
Drill Press (Jewelry) Used for competent drilling of micro holes down to 1/64" for jewelry and other delicate metals.
Durston Rolling Mill This precision mill is used to reduce the gauge of your metal to meet your design need with ease.
Enameling Kiln Provides a controlled high heat environment to fire glass enamel and Precious Metal Clay.
Jewelry Forming Station Texture and form bracelets, rings and jewelry forms with ease using the mandrels and hammers.
Orion Pulse Arc Welder Micro welding allows metal to be joined with precision and little heat transfer.
Polishing Machine Efficiently bring a uniform finish to metal. Motor reaches high speeds needed for polished finishes.
Rotary Tumbler Used in production jewelry with different grit media to finish small metal parts.
Soldering Station Acetylene torches suited for soldering and annealing brass, bronze, copper, gold and silver.
Ultrasonic Cleaner Effective at cleaning jewelry and small metal parts. Removes residues and leaves metal clean.
Wax Injector Used for lost wax casting, the injector heats wax and uses pressurized air to fill a rubber mold.
Desktop Waterjet Cutter Uses high-pressure water and an abrasive garnet material to cut through metal, tile, glass, rubber, acrylic, and more. Can handle material up to 12" x 18" x 1/2."
Roland MDX CNC Mill CNC tool that can cut full 3D objects, as well as 2D shapes, in a wide variety of materials.
Trotec Flexx 300 Laser Cutter Lasers are used for cutting and engraving materials such as wood, paper, acrylic, leather, and more. Bed Size: 17" x 29"
Trotec Speedy 500 Laser Cutter Used for repeatable and reliable engraving and cutting of wood, leather, paper, acrylic, and more. Our largest laser, with the capability of handling materials up to 27" x 48". Can not engrave or cut metal.
Anvil and Hammer Set Set of steel hammers and anvil for forming hot metal. Usually used along with a forge.
Belt Grinder Abrasive belt used for grinding, deburring, linishing and finishing of any metal material.
Bench Grinder Mounted wheels made from a variety of abrasive compounds for grinding and conditioning metal.
Brazing Torch Variety of torch heads for heat bending, annealing, brazing/torch welding, and cutting.
Cold Saw Chop saw for cutting various types of metal bar stock and tubing, mounted in a stationary vise.
Drill Presses Used for drilling holes for fasteners or other hardware, pre-drilling for tapping, etc.
Grizzly Vertical Bandsaw Variable speed bandsaw for making straight or curved cuts in sheet metal. Cut thin gauge sheet metal in steel, up to 1/4" in soft metals.
Horizontal Bandsaw Used for cutting bar & tube stock that can't be secured in cold saw vise (too big/small, irregularly shaped).
Metal Forge Used for heating metal up so it may be shaped though hammering, bending and other shaping processes.
MIG Welders Ideal for fusing metal with an automatically fed filler wire of the same composition. MIG welding has an easier cleanup, and less steep learning curve than TIG welding, and can weld thicker materials.
Plasma Cutter Cut irregular shapes out of sheet metal, cuts through thick material that our bandsaw can't handle.
Sand Blasting Cabinet Sand blasters are ideal for cleaning, modifying, or abrading material surfaces.
Scotchman Ironworker Hydraulic-powered machine for quickly punching and shearing both flat and angle iron. Ideal for cutting long lengths of metal down to the desired dimension.
Sheet Metal Roller, Brake, Shear Combo This machine is used to cut, bend and roll material 18 gauge or thinner with controlled results. 36" Capacity.
TIG Welder Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welders utilize a hand-fed filler rod to precisely fuse metal. TIG welds are often considered to be of higher quality and precision than MIG welds.
Arbor Press Small hand press used to emboss logos on leather, bend materials, and other pressing applications. Used for riveting, punching, bending, and other pressing applications.
Beveler Essential leatherworking tool that uses two knives to cut down the hard edges of straps or belts creating a refined-looking edge.
Brother Digital Embroidery Machines Converts digital images into embroidered patterns for patches and garments.
Brother Serger Designed for finishing the edges and hems of a wide range of fabrics to prevent fraying.
Burnisher Rotary tool used to smooth edges with sandpaper or the grooves in the rosewood spindle to finish the edges of your leather, creates a smooth edge
Clicker Press Simple die-cutting machine used to cut out shapes of soft materials like leather, cardboard and rubber.
Consew Walking Foot Utilizes a two-part foot to regulate the movement of the material beneath it. In combination with the feed dogs, it prevents slippage of materials allowing thicker textiles to be sewn.
Foiling Heat Press Used on leather to emboss, brand, and adhere metallic foils using custom dies or letterpress type.
Juki Chainstitch Sewing Machine Uses one continuous thread that is looped back on itself. This creates a stitch that has more stretch than a lock stitch. Ideal for thinner materials.
Juki Serger Designed for finishing the edges and hems of a wide range of fabrics to prevent fraying.
Juki Straight Stitch Industrial Sewing Machine Foundational heavy duty sewing machine that can handle thicker or layered materials.
Juki Walking Foot Utilizes a two-part foot to regulate the movement of the material beneath it. In combination with the feed dogs, it prevents slippage of materials allowing thicker textiles to be sewn.
Leather Splitter Designed to easily split almost any weight of leather down to your desired thickness.
Reece Buttonhole Machine Sews professional buttonholes with an automated specialty stitch that both sews and cuts your material, commonly seen on jeans and jackets.
Singer Bartack Sewing Machine A type of reinforcement stitching machine that is used to fortify stress points in textiles, such as to secure pocket corners, belt loops, and zipper flies.
Singer Sewing Machine Basic multi-use, general-purpose home sewing machine. This machine is ideal for everyday lightweight projects.
Skiver Used to remove thin layers of leather material to create leather products, such as shoes, suitcases, and belts.
Two-Head Kick Press Used for setting of grommets, eyelets, snaps, and rivets into leather work, clothing, and other textiles materials.
Union Special Chain Stitch Uses one continuous thread that is looped back on itself. This creates a stitch that has more stretch than a lock stitch. Ideal for heavier materials.
Weaver 205 Leather Sewing Machine Designed for industrial uses that allows for clean stitching of heavier textile materials, such as leather, nylon or canvas, sewing up to 3/4" thick.
Weaver Walking Foot Specialized walking foot industrial machine that can process materials other machines can't. Its 1" lift walking foot and 16" arm allow for clean stitching of difficult materials. Leather, Nylon, plastic webbing, rubber, canvas, tack.
Biscuit Joiner Makes strong and accurate joints for wood-to-wood connections. Uses a small blade to precisely cut crescent-shaped slots into the edges of boards for the placement of flat wooden biscuits.
Bosch Miter Saw The Bosch Miter Saw is a pull down circular saw that delivers quick and accurate miter angle cuts.
Bridgewood Planer Used to incrementally and rapidly remove material from the surface of lumber resulting in a board with the top face parallel to the bottom face. This is a key process for milling rough-sawn lumber into a board with a desired and known thickness.
Chisels and Gouges Flat chisels in 6 different widths and carving gouge in a variety of sizes and shapes. Used for squaring corners, precise wood joinery, and applying ornamentation to wood products
Circular Saw The circular saw allows straight and angled cuts at a variety of angles and depths of cut. Most often used when cutting material too large or cumbersome for the table saw.
DeWalt Miter Saws The Miter Saw is a pulldown circular saw that delivers quick and accurate miter angle cuts. Primarily used for length-cutting rough lumber but can also be used with milled boards, plastic, and soft metal.
Domino Joiner Capable of cutting accurate floating mortise and tenon joints. It plunges a straight cutting bit into the surface of a board to precisely cut slots for wooden dominos.
Downdraft Table Used for sanding, it has built-in ventilation to capture dust and draw it away from the material being worked on.
Grizzly Drill Press Drills a variety of materials and a variety of bit types and sizes, including plug cutting. Has depth stops 2 belt gear system for a range of RPMs, and 3-axis adjustable bed.
Grizzly Jointer Used to create a flat surface along the length of a board. When operated in conjunction with the planer, it's used to mill rough-sawn lumber into flat and square-dimensioned lumber.
Grizzly Vertical Bandsaw The Grizzly Bandsaw uses the downward force of the blade teeth for a wide range of different cuts. Used for making straight and irregular cuts.
Grizzly Wide Belt Sander The Wide Belt Sander evenly refines the surface of raw materials and finished panel assemblies.
Grizzly Wood Lathe Lathes securely hold and rotate material while the operator engages with cutting and shaping tools. This lathe is capable of handling materials up to 12" in diameter and 36" in length.
Horizontal Edge Sander The Edge Sander rapidly and efficiently shapes straight and convex edges of a flat workpiece with a course grit sanding belt on a flat graphite-backed platen.
Jet Drill Press Drills a variety of materials and a variety of bit types and sizes, including plug cutting.
Jet Wood Lathe Lathes securely hold and rotate material while the operator engages with cutting and shaping tools
Jointer The jointer mills rough lumber to a flat surface and establishes a 90 degree edge.
Kreg Router Table The router table is a vertically orientated spindle to be used with various bits to shape material.
Laguna Bandsaw The bandsaw is used for making straight, concave, convex, and irregular cuts in various materials.
Oscillating Spindle Sander Shapes a wide range of materials with a cylindrical sanding drum that continually rotates and vertically oscillates. With sanding drums ranging in diameter from 1/4" to 4."
Palm Sanders Smallest type of power sander - great for light-duty finish work and tight spots and corners.
Planer The planer surfaces and mills solid wood to a desired even thickness dimension in incremental steps.
Porter Cable Biscuit Joiner The Biscuit Joiner makes extremely strong & accurate joints for wood on wood connections.
Powermatic Combo Belt and Disc Sander Both a disc and vertical belt sander, this machine has a variety of sanding and shaping applications.
Rikon Belt & Disk Sander Combo Both a disc and belt sander, this machine has a variety of sanding and shaping applications.
Router Table The router table is a vertically orientated spindle to be used with cutters heads to mold a profile.
SawStop Table Saw Uses a mounted circular blade to cut a wide range of materials. Common uses are to rip and cross-cut solid wood, process plywood, and acrylic sheets, and cut complex joinery. Comes equipped with a safety break mechanism.
ShopBot CNC Routers CNC machines can precisely cut wood, composite materials, soft metals, foam, wax, and more. This CNC machine can mill materials up to 60" x 120" x 18".
Wen Drill Press Drills a variety of materials and a variety of bit types and sizes, including plug cutting. Has depth stops 2 belt gear system for a range of RPMs, and a 3-axis adjustable bed.
Wide Belt Sander The thickness sander evenly refines the surface or raw material or finished panel assemblies. Can flatten slabs and resin pours, remove finishes, refine surface sanding, and sand material to the desired thickness up to 43".
CODA Pressure Mounting Press The CODA Press is a motorized press designed for pressure sensitive mounting and laminating. Often used to cold-mount flat stock.
Grommet Press for Banners This press is capible of setting a veriety of fasteners including grommets, eyelets, and snaps.
Heat Press for Heat Transfers Ideal for applying the printed heat transfer media used on the vinyl printer. Used to affix printed media onto garments with heat and pressure. Bed size: 15" x 15."
3D Printer: Prusa i3 MK3s Creates 3D objects using Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM Printing), ideal for rapid prototyping. Capable of printing both rigid and flexible materials. Print Area: 8" x 8" x 9.5."
NextEngine 3D Scanner Uses a technology known as Laser Triangulation to precisely scan objects with 0.005" accuracy. 3D scanned objects produced can then be 3D printed, milled on CNC machines, or further edited in CAD software. Scan Area: 16" x 16" x 22."
BK Precision DC Power Supply BK power supplies are a convenient way to provide power and monitor current when prototyping.
BK Precision Function Generator Used to generate different types of electrical waveforms over a wide range of frequencies.
CNC Pick and Place Machine Automatically populates a PCB with surface-mounted components. Capable of placing components from size 0201 to 100 x 150 mm, including BGAs, µBGAs, CSPs, micro lead frames, and more.
Digital Oscilloscope An oscilloscopes creates a two-dimensional graph of voltage as a function of time.
Electronic Active Load This device can be used to test power sources by mimicking the behavior of various loads.
Large Reflow Oven Melts solder paste and lets it cool and solidify according to a preprogrammed pattern. Used for very large production runs requiring high throughput.
Microscope (10x) Optical microscope with 10x magnification, light attachment, and digital camera. Used when hand-soldering small components to aid in proper placement.
Preheating Plate Can be used to reflow solder paste for soldering or rework. Good for soldering components without prominent leads or many at once.
Small Reflow Ovens Melts solder paste and lets it cool and solidify according to a preprogrammed pattern. Used for small components and complex boards when manual soldering is impractical.
Solder Paste Stencil Printer Uses a mask to apply solder paste to the pads of a circuit board. The best choice when working with small SMT components or complex PCBs.
Solder Rework Station Includes a soldering iron, smoke absorber, and hot air gun, and is well-suited for the soldering and removal of individual components.
Solder Vacuum Used for soldering and rework, and includes a vacuum attachment for solder removal. One of many options available for rework and solder removal.
Stroboscope Produces a strobing light that is used to observe moving and oscillating objects. Users can measure vibration by finding a strobe frequency where the object appears to stop moving.
Universal Laser Cutter ILS Used for repeatable and reliable engraving and cutting of wood, leather, paper, acrylic, and more. Can handle materials up to 24" x 48" and can not engrave or cut metal.
Universal Laser Cutter PLS Used for repeatable and reliable engraving and cutting of wood, leather, paper, acrylic, and more. Can handle materials up to 18" x 32," but can not engrave or cut metal.
Universal Laser Cutter VLS Used for repeatable and reliable engraving and cutting of wood, leather, paper, acrylic, and more. Can handle materials up to 18" x 24" and can not engrave or cut metal.
Box and Pan Brake Metalworking machine used for efficiently bending sheet metal into pans and sheets.
Bridgeport Vertical Mill Used to reductively machine metal in a highly precise manner. The Bridgeport XA-900 utilizes a 2-axis digital XY table to accurately machine metal parts.
Burrking Belt Grinder Abrasive belt used for grinding, deburring, linishing, and finishing any metal material.
Clausing Cold Saw Chop saw for rough cutting through various kinds of metals, which are mounted in a stationary vice.
Handheld Pneumatic & Electric Tools Air and electric-powered rotary tools for cutting, grinding, and polishing metal. Ideal for pregrinding weld surfaces, grinding back welds, polishing and texturing metal, and cutting small pieces.
Ironworker Great for making quick cuts, punches and shears in barstock and small sheetstock with precision.
Jet Bench Grinder Mounted wheels made of fine and coarse abrasive compounds for grinding and abrating.
Jet Vertical Mill Used to reductively machine metal in a highly precise manner. The Jet JVM-836-3 utilizes a 3-axis digital XYZ table to accurately machine metal parts.
Metal Lathe Used for producing and boring into round or cylindrical pieces of metal. A rotating chuck is used to gradually cut away material to produce a cylindrical shape.
Metal Stock Bender Versatile tool used for bending stock into specific shapes depending on the needs of your project. A compact bender leverages torque to make a variety of bends on flat, square, or solid round stock.
Powermatic Metal Drill Press Stationary power drill for precision boring of holes of varying size in various kinds of metals.
Rolling Machine Used for rolling sections of sheet metal into round or conical shapes of precise dimensions.
Shears Blade mounted on a table for feeding sheet metal into in order to cut with precision.
Vertical Metal Bandsaw Variable speed bandsaw for making straight or curved cuts in sheet metal.
Belt & Disk Combo Sander Used to sand and shape a variety of materials either free hand or on the adjustable machine beds.
Delta Drill Press Drills a variety of materials and a variety of bit types and sizes, including plug cutting.
Grizzly Bandsaw (large) The Bandsaw is used for making straight, concave, convex, and irregular cuts in various materials.
Jet Wood Lathe Lathes securely hold and rotate material while the operator engages with cutting and shaping tools. This lathe is capable of handling materials up to 10" in diameter and 20" in length.
Nova Wood Lathe Securely hold and rotate material while the operator engages with cutting and shaping tools, ideal for turning bowls, knobs, dowels, rolling pins, decorative elements, ornaments, and more. Capable of handling materials up to 15" in diameter and 24" in length.
Powermatic Band Saw (small) The Bandsaw is used for making straight, concave, convex, and irregular cuts in various materials.
Router Table Uses a vertically mounted router with an array of interchangeable cutting bits to shape a workpiece in numerous ways.
Sand Pro Down Draft Table Built-in ventilation to capture dust and draw it away from the material being worked on.
ShopBot CNC Router CNC machines can precisely cut wood, composite materials, soft metals, foam, wax, and more. This CNC machine can mill materials up to 48" x 48" x 8."
Vacuum Former Plastic sheets are heated and stretched onto a 3D surface and then molded by a vacuum to hold a shape. Bed Size: 24" x 48."
Wide Belt Sander The thickness sander evenly refines the surface or raw material or finished panel assemblies.
Wood River Bench Chisel Set Flat chisels in 6 different widths and carving gouge in a variety of sizes and shapes. Used for squaring corners, precise wood joinery, and applying ornamentation to wood products.