Two machine shops, finishing rooms and your own bench, in over 8,000 sq ft of workshop on the Limehouse Cut.
1 / 6 The workshop Two of them, fully equipped, with the dust extraction done properly. Named, because they’re the point.
Panel and solid timber
The first of two Martin sliding saws, so nobody queues for a cut.
The second saw
Same make, same accuracy, in the other machine shop.
Profiles · tenons · rebates
For the joinery that a router table can’t.
2.5 m × 1 m bed · automatic tool changer
Shared with the makerspace. Sheet work, jigs and repeat parts.
Clean rooms for the last coat
Away from the dust, so the finish stays the finish.
Timber, sheet and finished pieces
Room to keep stock, and somewhere for a finished job to wait for collection.
Also on the floor
One all-inclusive monthly rate. No joining fee, no hidden costs.
One product, priced plainly. Your own bench, the machine shops and the building, on a three-month minimum.
For furniture makers running a business
Your own bench in the woodwork shop, with the two machine shops, the finishing rooms and storage for what you’re making.
Three-month minimum. Two months’ deposit.
Book a tourCabinet makers, joiners and designer-makers, most of them running a business from their bench. Some of the best furniture makers in East London, in their own words.
“Fabulous tools and machinery and great community. So glad to have found Hone.”
“The community of artisans and craftspeople is an amazing source of inspiration and collaboration.”
“Lovely community of talented makers and creative people carving out their businesses in London.”
“Great people sharing workspace.”
Four steps from reading this to a bench of your own.
Leave your name and what you make. The list is in order, and it hears first.
Pick a weekly tour with Jai. Twenty minutes round both machine shops, the benches and the building.
We tell the list, in order. Say yes and it’s yours on a three-month minimum.
Run by someone who uses these machines every day. Then the shop is yours, 24 hours.
From £905 a month. No joining fee, no hidden costs.
Canal-side in Limehouse, a short walk from the DLR.
Hone Limehouse
16 Pixley Street, London E14 7DF
Two Victorian factory buildings on the Limehouse Cut, built in 1911. Brick walls, timber floors, the height and the light kept. Runs on 100% renewable electricity.
Plain answers. If yours isn’t here, ask on the tour.
Everything: your private bench, both machine shops and the CNC after your induction, the finishing rooms, storage for materials and goods, the metalwork room, kitchens, coffee, wifi and the gardens. No joining fee, no hidden costs.
Benches rarely come up. When one does we tell the list, in order, before it goes anywhere else. Leave your name, what you make, and we do the rest.
Three-month minimum. Two months’ deposit. Notice periods are set out in the agreement.
24-hour access to both of our buildings for bench members.
Yes. The Apollo router is shared with the makerspace and yours after an induction.
There’s storage for materials and goods beside the shop, and the finishing rooms keep the last coat away from the dust.
Yes, at Hone Bristol in Fishponds, with its own page and its own prices.
Email info@honeworkspace.com or call 020 7987 8328. Or book a tour and ask on the way round.
The weekly tour takes you round the makerspace, the workshops and the building, with whoever is making things that day. It’s booked the moment you choose a time.
