Making history together
Nine years from a spare-room bench to a shop that ships worldwide, without ever getting big enough to stop caring what we list.
2016A bench in a spare room
Arken started building machines for friends who were tired of paying prebuilt prices for parts nobody would explain.
2019The shop came later
The advice was the valuable part, and it did not scale over text messages. So we started stocking the things we kept recommending, and writing down why.
2022A narrower range, known properly
We stayed small on purpose. Eight manufacturers, chosen for support as much as spec, so we can actually know the range we hold.
2025Nine years later
More shelves, same bench mentality. Every product on the site still has someone here who has lived with it.





