A free directory of machining capacity in Western Australia.

If you need something machined in Perth, finding the right workshop is harder than it should be. Search engines give you whoever spent the most on their website. Trade directories list a name and a phone number. Neither tells you the one thing that actually decides whether a shop can help: whether your part physically fits in their machines.

So that is what this records. For every workshop listed, we go through the floor machine by machine and write down the real limits of what each one can hold: swing and length for turning, the table envelope for milling. Nobody else publishes those numbers. They are what turns "who does machining near me" into "these workshops, and here are the machines behind them".

None of it is scraped, and none of it is taken on trust from a form. Every machine on this site has been checked against the machine. A workshop only goes on the list once we have been through its fleet and the workshop has agreed to be listed. If a listing is wrong, it is wrong because we made a mistake, and we would like to hear about it.

It is free, both ways

Free to search: no account, no sign-up, nothing to pay, and no form standing between you and a workshop's phone number. Free to be listed: workshops pay nothing to appear, and nothing to appear higher. The list is alphabetical, which is the only order that cannot be sold.

When you find a workshop that fits, you contact them directly and deal with them yourself. We are not in the middle of that conversation.

Western Australia only

There are directories that cover the world. This one covers one state, on purpose. A workshop in Malaga you can drive a pallet to on Tuesday afternoon is worth more than a quote from somewhere you will never see, and the difference between the two is local knowledge: who is good at what, who is busy, who will take an awkward job.

One state is also the only honest size for a list like this. Western Australia is a third of the continent, which is precisely why a list of its machining capacity has to be built by someone who works here rather than assembled from websites. Knowing which shops are worth your part is not something you can read off a search result, and it is not something anyone is going to work out from Sydney.

Who is behind this

My name is Jayme. I have spent my working life around these machines, all of it in Western Australia, and I run Lightouch, a manufacturing consultancy here in Perth, which means I am in workshops most weeks looking at what they can actually do. I know what a shop can really hold, which is not always what its website says, and I know the difference between a workshop that will take an awkward one-off and one that would rather not. That is the whole reason this list exists: nobody was writing any of it down.

Missing a workshop, or spotted something wrong? Tell us. The list is only as good as the people correcting it.