Our Story

How We Came To Be

We started with a World War II era workhorse and worked our way up to modern HAAS equipment, one job at a time. We started with making parts for our own research assignments and pro-bono parts for our fellow engineering students. In the early days we were local and you had to know we existed. When you deliver quality word gets around quickly. Today we are making parts for customers all over the USA powering helicopters, radars, robotic construction, machines, medical equipment, classic cars, musical instruments, vintage motorcycles, you name it, but we never forgot why we have started all this: we wanted to be the machine shop we wished was available to us when we were students.

Are you a student, inventor, RC modeler, automobile enthusiast, engineer, hobbyist, aviator, or small business? Do you have a burning desire to go make something awesome - but your idea depends on non-existent parts? How many times has the big auto-parts/hardware/hobby/whatever store let you down? Are not you tired of sifting through the shelves at home improvement stores hoping you can improvise a machine out of plumbing fixtures? Are you sick of watching five-minute-crafts videos hoping you can somehow learn how to convert a garden faucet into a CV joint - or something equally misguided if not dangerous? Do you know how many metals sold in home improvement stores are going to be toxic (some even radioactive) when you work on them yourself? Have you not have enough with trying to McGyver your way through every technical problem with hot glue and a Dremel? Stop and imagine for a moment, how much all of that lost time and frustration was financially worth to you. Why not invest that to teaming up with us? Katya Ironworks is the People's Machine Shop. We are unique because we represent two decades of engineering expertise in the aerospace industry and we specialize in low-cost-high-quality precision parts. A combination you will find nowhere else. Let us be your industrial revolution partner. We have helped many amazing people with big ideas yet small budgets. We are confident we can offer you quality at a great price.

We can engineer, design and make the unavailable parts available to you through modern computer aided manufacturing. We make parts on our state of the art HAAS CNC lathe and vertical machining centers. We use sophisticated inspection and calibration equipment, we meticulously select domestic raw material, and we have optimized processes for short production runs. Get that unique custom unavailable un-findable part shipped to your door in a matter of days. No minimum orders.