Austin, Texas · Additive manufacturing studio
Precision-made
in Austin.
We take a part from brief to finished object — CAD design, material selection, production, and finishing, all in-house. Mostly in PETG-CF, a carbon-reinforced polymer that holds its shape under heat and load where standard print materials fail.
Custom work
Designed in-house.
Engineered for utility.
If you need a part that does not exist yet, this is the work we do. Describe the problem — you do not need a drawing, a file, or the right vocabulary. We handle the design and we make the part.
What we take on
- Brackets and mounts — holding something in a specific place, at a specific angle.
- Enclosures and housings — for electronics, instruments, or equipment that needs protecting.
- Jigs and fixtures — shop tooling, alignment guides, drilling templates, assembly aids.
- Replacement parts — for equipment where the original is discontinued or was never sold separately.
- Short production runs — from one part to a few hundred.
- Adapters — making two things fit that were never designed to.
What we don't
Being straight about this saves us both time, and there is usually a better option than us.
- Anything where failure could injure someone — parts that carry a person's weight, anything critical to a vehicle's operation, and medical applications. These need certified engineering, not a print studio.
- Copies of branded or patented parts. If it has someone else's logo on it, we can't reproduce it.
- Parts larger than roughly 340 × 320 × 340 mm. Bigger than that and you want a large-format bureau — happy to point you at one.
- Runs above a few hundred units. At that volume injection moulding will beat us on price and we will tell you so.
Material
Our default is PETG-CF — carbon-fibre reinforced PETG. It stays dimensionally stable in a hot garage or a vehicle, where the PLA most print shops use will soften and sag. It is stiffer than standard PETG and it takes threaded metal inserts reliably, so parts can be bolted together and taken apart again.
Where the job needs more than that, we run engineering polymers — nylon, polycarbonate, and high-temperature resins on enclosed, hardened-nozzle machines. Tell us what the part has to survive and we'll tell you what it should be made from, and why.
- Default material
- PETG-CF
- Threaded interfaces
- M3 heat-set inserts
- Standard colour
- Matte black
- Print fleet
- 5 machines
- Revisions included
- 2 rounds
- Additional rounds
- $30 each
- Deposit to begin
- 50%
| Material | When we reach for it |
|---|---|
| PETG-CF | The default. Heat and load — garages, vehicles, anywhere PLA gives up. Takes threaded inserts well. |
| ABS / ASA | Outdoors in direct sun. Holds colour and surface where PETG fades. |
| PC — polycarbonate | Impact. Parts that have to survive a real drop or strike, not just hold a static load. |
| PA-CF / PA-GF — fibre-filled nylon | Solvents, oils, and fuels. Also the pick when a part has to mate precisely and hold that fit over time. |
| PPA-CF / PPA-GF | Sustained heat beyond what PETG-CF or ASA will take. |
| PPS | The top of the range — highest heat resistance and chemical resistance we run. For parts that live somewhere genuinely hostile. |
| TPU | Genuine flex. Rubber-like parts, gaskets, and dampers — not a rigid material that tolerates bending. |
The high-temperature and fibre-filled materials need an enclosed chamber and a hardened nozzle, which is why most print services won't quote them. Ours will.
How it works
Brief
You describe the problem. A photo of the thing it has to fit helps more than a drawing.
Quote
A scoped price and a date, in writing. Not a sales call.
Design
CAD, with two revision rounds included. You approve before anything prints.
Make
Printed, finished, and hardware installed in the studio.
Ship
Shipped from Austin at cost. We follow up once it's in service.
What it costs to start
Design is charged separately from production. The figures below are the design fee — what it takes to get to a finished, proven file. Production is quoted on material, machine time, and quantity once we know what we're making.
A quote holds for 30 days. Custom work is non-returnable once you've approved the design, so approval is the point at which we both commit.
| Design tier | From | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Modify an existing design | $20 | Dimensional changes or adaptation of a part we already make, or a file you supply. |
| New simple part | $60 | Single body. No moving parts or threaded interfaces. |
| New mechanical part | $150 | Hardware interfaces, threaded inserts, assemblies, or geometry under load. |
| Print only — you supply the file | No design fee | Priced on material, machine time, and finishing. |
How long it takes
These are typical, not promises. This is a one-person studio, so the honest answer depends on what else is on the machines that week. Your quote confirms an actual date before you commit to anything.
- Modify an existing design
- About 1 week
- New simple part
- 1–2 weeks
- New mechanical part
- 2–4 weeks
- Print only, file supplied
- 3–7 days
- Short runs
- Add time — quoted
Start a project
The more of this you fill in, the closer the first reply gets to an actual quote.
Got it — thank you.
Your project details are with us. You'll hear back within 48 hours, or within 24 if you flagged a deadline under two weeks. The first reply will be a scoped quote or a specific question about the part.
Nothing else needed from you in the meantime.
One more step
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Attach your reference images to that email. They can't be carried across automatically.
The studio
Made here, not sourced.
Every part is designed, printed, and finished in one studio in Austin. Nothing is drop-shipped and nothing is outsourced.
Our own product line
The same process, run on our own product
The 4MA system is a modular organizing platform for cycling kit that we designed, engineered, and manufacture ourselves — threaded hardware interfaces, mounts that hold under load, and tolerances held across a catalogue of parts that all have to fit each other. It is the clearest thing we can show you, because we did every part of it: design, CAD, production, finishing, packaging, and standing behind it afterwards.
The 4MA modular system
Shelves, bins, hooks, and adapters on a clamp-and-thumbscrew mount, so nothing drifts under load. Expandable, and compatible with tons.bike vertical rails. Bins are made to order.
Compact All-in-One Stand
Holds a helmet, shoes, and sunglasses. Stays where you put it. No wall required, nothing to drill, nothing to mount — it stands on the floor and it stays standing.
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