Better light for serious work.
If you are struggling to see a scribed line, the colour of a wire or the edge of a cut, it is usually the light, not your eyes. A Workshop Light stands on the bench, lighting the job in front of you and rendering colour at 98% accuracy.
If you are struggling to see the line, the wire or the edge of the cut, it is usually the light, not your eyes. A Workshop Light stands on the bench, rendering colour at 98% accuracy right over the job.
Alex Pratt OBE | Founder
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£99.99, was £149.99 · 83 left
What changes at the first switch-on.
Ordinary light is missing part of the spectrum. A Workshop Light delivers all of it, straight onto the work.
Colour comes back.
Ordinary light leaves gaps in its spectrum and scores about 80 for colour accuracy. These score 98: brown looks brown, red looks red, and a stain dries the shade you matched.
The beam is adjustable.
Three lenses come in the box: a 20° spot, a 30° bench beam and a 36° flood. They swap by hand, no tools.
The arm stays where you put it.
Bend it to the job and it holds, next to a running pillar drill. One button switches it on and dims it.
A brighter bulb does not fix it.
The gaps are in the spectrum, and more brightness does not fill them. A Workshop Light rebuilds the full spectrum and directs all of it onto the work, so you can see the detail.
Ordinary light scatters around the room. A Workshop Light directs its full spectrum onto the work.
Here are the same five wires under both lights.
Colour accuracy is scored out of 100, and daylight is the 100. Ordinary light scores about 80. Both of these score 98.
Choose your Workshop Light.
The Gary Light clips on and moves with the job. The Workshop Light screws down and stays put.
The Gary Light clips on and moves with the job. The Workshop Light screws down and stays put.
It clips on and moves with the work.
The Gary Light
Built by Gary, our workshop lead of 28 years, for his own bench. The clamp grips any edge up to 40mm and moves from the vice to the drill press in seconds.
CRI 98 · 3.3W · 500mm stay-put arm · 40mm clamp
£99.99£149.9948 left
Order the Gary Light
It screws down and never moves.
The Workshop Light
The base screws into the worktop with the supplied fixings and stays aimed for good. A swivel head does the fine adjustment.
CRI 98 · 6.6W · 500mm stay-put arm · Screw-down base
£99.99£149.9935 left
Order the Workshop LightThree beam lenses in the box: a 20° spot, a 30° bench beam, a 36° flood
One button dims it from full down to low
30,000-hour LED. No bulb to replace
Plugs into a normal socket. Nothing to wire
Quote EM2760 at checkout or on the phone
How it fixes to your bench.
The base screws into a wooden worktop, screws supplied. Three other ways if you would rather not drill.
It screws into a wooden worktop. Three other ways if you would rather not drill.
G-Clamp, £19.99.
Clamps to the edge of a bench or a shelf and holds hard, then comes off when you want the bench clear. Nothing to drill.
Magnetic base, £29.99.
Drops onto any steel surface and lifts off again. No drilling.
Wall bracket, £19.99.
Screws to the wall or the back of the bench, so the light comes in over the job and the worktop stays clear.
Built to be the best, not the cheapest.
A cheap clamp lamp shows colour badly and its arm droops. These do neither.
We have built light for serious work for forty years: the Royal Navy, the RNLI, Heathrow Air Traffic Control, London Underground, the Metropolitan Police. Our lights have appeared on The Repair Shop and in Q’s den in James Bond.
Forty years on nothing but light, from one factory in Aylesbury.
Over a million lights sold in 93 countries.
About 90p a year to run at three hours a night.
Hand-built in Great Britain, with a one-year warranty and the arm guaranteed for life.
Thirty days at your own bench. Not right? We refund in full, delivery included, and collect from your door.
Before you order.
Which mounting is right for my bench?
Take the Gary Light if you work across more than one spot: the 40mm clamp holds a bench lip, a machine frame or a shelf without tools, and moves in seconds. Take the Workshop Light for a fixed bench: screwed into the worktop, it cannot move.
For a steel surface you cannot drill, take the Workshop Light with the magnetic base at £29.99, which holds without drilling and lifts off in a second.
What does CRI 98 mean in practical use?
The Colour Rendering Index measures how faithfully a light reveals colour against natural daylight, which scores 100. A low score does not look dim, it looks flat.
Ordinary lighting sits near 80 because its spectrum has gaps, mostly in the reds. Both lights on this page score 98, so grain, annealing colours and wiring codes stand out.
How do the three beam lenses work?
The 20° puts a tight circle of light into deep or blind holes. The 30° is the everyday bench beam. The 36° spreads it for assembly and finishing.
They swap by hand in seconds, without tools.
What comes in the box?
The light, a plug-in driver for ordinary UK mains, the three beam lenses, and the mounting base with its fixings.
Clamps, magnetic bases and wall brackets are sold separately, so you only pay for the mount you will use.
How much is delivery?
£12.95 by DHL, usually within five working days on the UK mainland.
If you send it back inside the thirty days, the refund includes the delivery charge.
Do I need an electrician?
No. It runs off a plug-in driver that goes into a normal thirteen amp socket, so there is nothing to wire in.
Fitting is a screwdriver job: mark the base, put the screws in, bend the arm to where you work.
What if it is not right for my bench?
You have thirty days to work under it. If it is not right, or you would rather have the other mounting, call our Aylesbury team on 0800 032 9364 for an exchange or a full refund, delivery charge included, and we collect it from your door.
The same number gets you the workshop if anything goes wrong later. We have repaired our own lights for forty years.
Why is it reduced?
Because they are the last of them. The Gary Light was a limited edition of 50, and the Workshop Light is a final batch with no more scheduled.
83 in total, all brand new and boxed.
There are 83 of these left.
£99.99 instead of £149.99. When these are gone there are no more: 48 Gary Lights and 35 Workshop Lights.
See the two lightsThirty days to send it back if it is the wrong one for your bench. Quote EM2760 at checkout or on the phone.
Or call free on 0800 032 9364, Mon–Fri 8:30am–5:30pm.