About
One design. You choose how far we take it.
Fab Cartel gives you more than one way to get the same great product.
Build it yourself
Get the professionally designed kit, information and support you need to take the build on yourself.
Built locally
Work with an approved Fab Cartel builder and have your product fabricated closer to home.
Built by us
Want the keys handed over when it's done? We'll organise the complete build.
No matter which way you go, it starts with the same Fab Cartel design.
Why we exist
To put the power back in the hands of the people who build.
Australia is full of seriously capable fabricators, workshops and makers.
What they don't always have is the time, engineering, product development or design resources required to take an idea from scratch to a properly resolved product.
That's where Fab Cartel comes in.
We create the designs, develop the products, test the thinking and build the systems behind them — giving independent builders access to something normally reserved for much bigger manufacturers.
The result is better products, more capable local businesses and more things being made where they should be: locally, by people who give a shit about what they build.
Our mission
We take care of the thinking behind the product.
To give builders, fabricators and DIYers access to the designs, kits, knowledge and support required to build professional-quality products.
You take care of making it real.
Our vision
Designed professionally. Built locally.
We're building a network of independent fabricators, makers and workshops who can produce proven Fab Cartel products in communities across Australia — and eventually beyond it.
A network where good ideas are shared.
Where builders learn from builders.
Where feedback from the workshop makes the next product better.
Where more money, skills and manufacturing stay within local industry.
Not one massive factory trying to build everything. A Cartel of seriously good builders making seriously good gear.
Start your build