Welcome to The Hobbyist Machine Store

Mill and LatheThe Hobbyist Machine Store (THMS) has been established to supply the needs of the customer who requires special tools, parts, kits or services that are best supplied by a small hobby sized machine shop. To that end we specifically place our emphasis on custom products not available from large volume suppliers. Thus the name, The Hobbyist Machine Store is appropriate.

Some hobbyists want to do their own machine work. THMS has selected what we consider high quality small machine tools that will not require weeks of fine tuning and rebuilding for proper operation. This selection is more costly than the low end imports but very accurate and reliable for making the small precision parts a hobbyist requires. We will expand the tools and machines portion of the business as our customers’ requests require. All of the offerings are based on our own hands on experience.

For the home machinist looking to improve the very popular Asian Mini-mill and Mini-lathe, THMS is the original source for steel replacement (for the plastic) gears in these machine tools. No other “Mini-tool” components are anticipated.

THMS is not just a store for the machinist hobbyist. If you have technical hobby interests other than machine work and need custom small scale machines and work supplies, send us an email about what you are seeking.

For example, Proxxon has many more precision small (mini) machines that THMS can add to our store items. THMS lists the very nice Proxxon rotary hand tools, but Proxxon also has a nice line of rotary tool accessories like burrs and cutters.

The Hobbyist Machine Shop intends to be your source for specialized hobby tools and products. Let us know what we can offer.