About — Est. 2024 — Portland, OR
We make one workbench. We obsess over it.
Halden Works started in a 400-square-foot garage in Portland. The founder — a former industrial designer at a furniture company — wanted a workbench that looked as considered as the cars he was working on. Nothing on the market fit. So we built one.
What we believe
Four principles that built the bench.
01
One product. Done right.
We didn’t want to make a catalog. We wanted to make the single best workbench a homeowner could put in their garage — and put everything we have into that one thing.
02
Design-conscious utility.
Premium hardware doesn’t have to look like commercial bulk. Restrained proportions. Honest materials. Hardware you actually want to look at.
03
Ships ready. Built lean.
Single carton. Twenty minutes. No tools. We obsess over the unboxing because that’s where most premium furniture quietly falls apart.
04
Backed for life.
The frame is warranted for the life of the product. If anything fails on us, it’s on us. That’s the whole policy.
The materials
Solid rubberwood. 16-gauge steel. UL-listed power. Nothing decorative.
Rubberwood is dense, sustainably harvested, and ages with character. We hand-finish every top with a food-safe, oil-rubbed finish so it takes oil, sweat, and the occasional dropped wrench.
The frame is 16-gauge tubular steel — thicker than what most big-box brands ship — powder-coated in a matte black that resists chip, fade, and scratch. We chose the gauge for stability under 1,000 lb static load, not because it looked good in a render.
The 15A outlet is wired to a UL-listed circuit with its own resettable breaker, finished with a 6-foot braided cord rated for shop environments. We didn’t add USB-C because it’s trendy. We added it because no one wants to dig for a wall outlet to charge a phone.
The brand model
Premium DTC. One SKU. Built for high-intent search demand.
A lean operational model with a single hero SKU, sold direct through Google Shopping and Search to high-intent buyers — the modern premium DTC playbook from Ridge, Floyd, and Yeti, applied to the $1.3B U.S. premium garage segment.
$1.3B
U.S. premium garage TAM
35–60
Core demographic
$399
ASP
1 SKU
Operationally lean