The Workshop

The workshop

1,400 sqft of lasers, CNC, woodworking and 3D printing — all under one roof in Leith.

What's inside

Our equipment

We invested in serious machines so we could take on serious work. Every piece of equipment earns its space in the workshop.

Fibre laser marking a small brass plaque on the laser bed, with the beam visible mid-engrave

Lasers

Laser cutting and engraving

Three laser systems give us the range to work with almost any material. The 100W fibre MOPA handles metals — brass, stainless, aluminium, anodised finishes — with precision down to fractions of a millimetre, and does colour and annealed marking on stainless without cutting a groove. The 50W fibre is dedicated to finer metal work and marking. The 60W CO₂ cuts and engraves wood, acrylic, leather, fabric and paper.
Between them they cover engraving, cutting, marking, annealing and colour-changing on metal. If it can be cut or marked with light, we can do it.

Laser cutting & engraving
Genmitsu CNC with organised bits in Cobblestone Creative workshop.

CNC

CNC routing

Our CNC handles detailed work — cut silhouettes and shaped components, decorative inlays, precision joinery and repeatable parts.
CNC means repeatability without losing the handmade feel. Every piece is still sanded, assembled and finished by hand.

Bambu Lab H2D print bed part-way through a print, with small 3D printed components on the build plate

3D printing

3D printing and prototyping

Two Bambu printers — the H2D and the A1 — let us prototype fast. A design can go from screen to physical model in hours rather than weeks. We use them for jigs, fixtures, test fits and client prototypes. When something needs to be held, tested and revised before it hits the CNC or the laser, printing gets us there.

3D printing
Long live-edge timber slab clamped across the workbench, ready for machining

Woodworking

Woodworking

A fully functional woodworking space alongside the digital fabrication equipment. Table saw, bandsaw, planer, thicknesser, router table and hand tools — everything needed to take raw timber from rough-sawn boards to finished work. Most builds start here, with material selection and preparation, before moving to the CNC or laser for the precision work.

Around the workshop

  • Lengths of sawn timber stacked ready for a build, viewed along the grain

    Stock in

    Timber stacked and stickered before a build.

  • Timber slab with knots and voids filled with clear resin, part-way through finishing

    Filling and stabilising

    Knots and voids filled with clear resin before finishing.

  • Workshop bench laid out with sash clamps, pliers and hand tools during a build

    On the bench

    Clamps and hand tools out mid-assembly.

  • Hand-labelled paint colour swatches brushed onto the white brick wall of the workshop

    Colour matching

    Paint swatches brushed out and labelled on the workshop wall.

HOW WE WORK

From idea to finished piece

Step 1 — Design

We sketch, model and iterate. On a commission we work with you until the design is right; on our own work we take as long as it needs.

Step 2 — Prototype

A physical model before any production commitment. 3D printed or cut from offcuts, depending on the material. This is where we catch problems early, while they are still cheap.

Step 3 — Material selection

We source materials for each job — solid hardwood, birch ply, acrylic, brass, stainless, whatever the project demands. We don't stockpile; we buy for the job so the material suits the piece rather than the other way round.

Step 4 — Production

Parts are cut, routed or laser-marked to spec, then moved to the bench for hand assembly. Depending on the job that might take an afternoon or a full week — we don't rush it.

Step 5 — Finishing

Hand-sanded, oiled, waxed or painted depending on the piece. This is where the character comes in — no two pieces of natural timber finish identically.

Step 6 — Quality check and dispatch

Every piece is inspected before it ships. If it's not right, it doesn't leave.