Maker Cube

Say you want to build a bench, but you have no table saw, no planer, and no garage to put them in. Maker Cube’s answer is a 6,000-plus square foot shared workshop in Langley City where the tools are already set up and someone on staff knows how to run them.

What’s inside

The woodshop is the heart of it: two SawStop cabinet saws, a panel saw, a 20-inch planer, an 8-inch jointer, bandsaws, router tables, a mortiser and dust collection plumbed to all of it. Through the door is a metal shop with MIG, TIG and stick welders, a plasma cutter and a sandblasting cabinet. A CNC room has two Onefinity routers, a 4-by-4-foot CNC plasma table and a 36-by-24-inch laser cutter, and the printer bench runs Bambu Lab, Prusa and resin machines. There is a pottery corner too, with a kiln, a wheel and a slab roller.

How membership works

There are two tiers, and neither needs a lease. The Maker Passport is $676 a year, then $20 each day you come in; CNC and laser time is $38 an hour and the booking includes that day’s access. The Passport+ is $208 a month for unlimited days and $20-an-hour machine time. Both add a $30 key fob and a $50 discount on classes. Before anyone touches the big tools they take Intro to Woodworking (or another intro class if they’ve done that one), and some machines need their own orientation, paid separately. Hobbyists and small businesses can also rent a “cube”, a plywood-walled studio of about 50 or 100 square feet, from $450 a month on a three-month term, membership included.

Classes you can just drop into

You don’t have to join to take a class. November 2026 has 25 dated sessions on their calendar: the cutting-board woodworking class ($149, 3.5 hours, six people, age 14 and up, bring safety glasses), laser cutting and engraving, MIG welding basics ($175), a Fusion 360 day and two $40 Christmas-ornament glazing evenings. Registration closes 24 hours before each one.

Who runs it

Adam Ali, Doug Chan and Jacqueline Ali founded Maker Cube in 2017 and describe it as family-operated. Several working makers rent cubes there, including a guitar builder, a cabinetmaker and a chess-board maker.

Wear closed-toe shoes, tie back long hair and skip the loose sleeves. More Langley City businesses are in Shop Local in Langley City, and our art classes in Langley and hobby and craft shops pages cover the rest of the maker scene.