Cascade Maker Collective · Tacoma, Washington
A shared woodshop and metal shop, run as a collective. Get certified on the tools, sign out a studio membership, and build on your own time.
Studio memberships
A studio membership puts the woodshop and the metal shop behind your name. Tool certification classes come first, so the floor is yours to book whenever the project calls.
Benches, hand tools and the machines that need a class before you run them.
Cut, grind, weld and finish — the metal side runs alongside the woodshop.
One class on the equipment you want to run, so you can work the shop on your own time.
The bench clears and your finished work goes on the table with everybody else's.
Come see the shop before you commit to anything. Look at the tools on the wall, the benches in use, and the work in progress.
Take a certification class on the equipment you want to run. That is how the collective knows you are cleared for the shop.
A membership covers woodshop and metal shop access, so the shop stays open to you whenever the project calls.
Classes · youth build nights
Certification classes are how members get cleared on the equipment, one machine at a time. Young builders get their own evenings at the same benches.
Every machine in the shop has a class behind it. A session walks you through one piece of equipment from setup to cleanup, so you can book bench time on your own after that.
Woodshop equipment · metal shop equipment
Young builders take over the benches for the evening — tools in hand, a project from first cut to last sand, and something of their own to carry home at the end of it.
Evening sessions · woodshop and metal shop benches
Member showcase markets
The shop clears its benches and fills them with member work. Furniture and metalwork, small goods and shop-made jigs — the same hands that signed out the tools set out what they made.
Equipment donation intake
Donations stock the crib and memberships keep it running. If it cuts, holds, turns or hammers, it can go back on the wall for whoever signs out next.
Donated equipment moves through the crib the same way members do — it gets checked, logged and signed back out.