Most Shed Lab products start the same way. Something annoys us enough that we decide to fix it.

Shed Lab began in a shed in Northern NSW, designing and 3D printing small solutions to everyday frustrations we kept running into on worksites, around the shed and out on our grazing property. Nothing complicated. Just practical improvements to things that were annoying, poorly designed, or missing altogether.

Before long, friends and family started asking if they could have one. That was the moment we realised if we were running into these problems, there was a good chance plenty of other people were too. So in early 2025, Shed Lab was born.

The name says exactly what it is. Think of it as a workshop dedicated to investigating the small problems you find on a worksite, in a shed or out on the farm, then developing practical designs to solve them. We're not trying to save the world or reinvent the wheel. We're simply fixing the everyday frustrations we come across ourselves.

Ideas don't come from a boardroom. They come from worksites, sheds and paddocks. Sometimes that means improving something that has existed for decades. Our stringline winder, for example, is a modern version of a prototype originally built during a first-year carpentry apprenticeship over 25 years ago. Other times it means solving a small problem no one has properly addressed, like mounting a rain gauge on a steel fence post. If it doesn't work in the real world, it doesn't make it into Shed Lab.

To manufacture our designs, we use 3D printing so we can build, test and refine solutions ourselves. After a lot of research and experimentation, we settled on PETG, a structural plastic that is strong, UV resistant and weather resistant. That means our gear can live outdoors, on site or on the farm without falling apart. Every product is designed, printed and assembled locally here in Northern NSW, which lets us keep improving details and developing new solutions quickly.

Shed Lab isn't about complicated gadgets. It's about practical accessories, brackets and tools that solve small but frustrating problems. Over time, that becomes a catalogue of simple solutions that quietly makes life easier for people who work with their hands. Builders. Carpenters. Farmers. Rural property owners. Anyone who spends time in a shed or workshop.

Every product follows one simple rule: if we wouldn't use it ourselves, we won't sell it.

If you appreciate solutions that solve real problems, take a look through the range and see what's come out of the lab so far.