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Furniture & Woodworking
Heirloom cabinetry, benches, and boxes — joined by hand, dialed in by machine.
Design & Fabrication Studio · Los Gatos, CA
We make things
that cut across
boundaries. A full-stack studio for product prototypes, tools, machines, and art — at our best when many disciplines and a network of collaborators meet on one bench.
The bench · ink & iron What we do
Six disciplines,
one shop floor.
Most studios specialize. We deliberately don’t. Keeping wood, metal, clay, cloth, and circuits within arm’s reach is how we make objects that wouldn’t survive a hand-off between vendors.
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Machines & Tooling
Custom jigs, fixtures, and purpose-built machines that make the next thing possible.
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Metal Fabrication
Laser-cut, machined, and hand-finished steel, brass, and aluminum.
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Ceramics & Pottery
Wheel-thrown work — and the precision tools that shape it.
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Soft Goods
Sewn bags, aprons, and textiles in waxed canvas, webbing, and leather.
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Electronics
Boards, firmware, and embedded systems for objects that need to think.
The thesis
We’re at our best when the full range of our capabilities — and our network of collaborators — meet on one project.
A bag with a machined buckle. A bench with embedded sensors. A tool that needed a potter, a machinist, and a sewist in the same conversation. The interesting work lives between the disciplines — so we built a shop that lives there too.
Sketch → Prototype → Tooling → Short-run manufacture → Finish & ship
Selected work
Proof, not
promises.
From one-off commissions to a manufactured product line. Each piece below crossed at least two of our disciplines.
Hero case study · End to end 
A potter’s frustration, turned into a product line.
Monkey Stuff is our subsidiary brand of precision pottery tools and maker bags. We took it from sketch to shelf — machining the wet trimmers and brass ribs, sewing the waxed-canvas bags, designing the brand and packaging, and standing up the storefront. One studio, the whole stack.
17+
Products
shipped
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Disciplines
involved
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USA
Machined
in-house
in-house
Founder / shop portrait
The studio
Built by makers,
for the work.
Behind the Tech Labs grew out of a simple stubbornness: the most interesting objects don’t respect the boundaries between trades, so a shop shouldn’t either. We keep woodworking, machining, ceramics, sewing, and electronics close enough to argue with each other.
When a project needs a hand we don’t have, we reach into a deep bench of collaborators — and we like it best when we do.
WoodworkersMachinistsCeramicistsSewistsWeldersEEsFinishersPhotographers
Behind the Tech Labs A design & fabrication studio · Los Gatos, California
Let’s make something
Have something that doesn’t fit in a box?
We partner with brands, manufacturers, and fellow makers on work that cuts across disciplines. Tell us what you’re trying to build — and let’s figure out how to make it real.