I was a member of one briefly, when I had the need for some woodshop stuff.

The way they worked was you paid a flat monthly fee to be a member. …think it was around $65/monthly. If you wanted to use the woidshop you had to pay a one-time fee of $250 and either take a basic woodshop class (an afternoon) or talk to the woodshop guy and convince him you knew what you were doing. Then you had woodshop privileges so long as you paid your monthly fee.

If you wanted to use the metal shop, another $250 to unlock metal shop privileges. Now your $65 a month gets you wood shop and metal shop. And so forth. They had a CNC machine, laser engraving, industrial sewing machines, 3D printers, powder coating…all kinds of stuff. You could also rent a locker or small storage space so you didn’t have to bring all your tools and supplies each time.

I joined up just for a couple of short term projects that weren’t feasible to do on my own at home. The pricing was a little high for the, “eh, I’ll just pop in to do a little bit.” I think it was geared more towards serious hobbyists who would be there every weekend or people running a small-time Etsy business.

But hey, at least we got to sell more ad space by printing another article about it…

He’s a Democrat and he hasn’t made national news for his despicably racist remarks about immigrants. Outside of that, who really cares what the county sheriff’s platform is? If I lived there, I’d vote for him.

He’s up for re-election right now. Here’s his opponent’s campaign site.

Yeah, you do seem great.