CASE STUDIES

Real projects from the workshop

Every case study below is a real customer brief that came through the workshop. Materials, technologies, lead times, and the constraints that shaped each decision — captured warts-and-all so you can see how a project like yours might run.

1997 Honda ST1100 Pan European with new parts

Motorcycle / classic restoration

“Original cowls are unobtainable”: reprinting a 1997 Honda ST1100’s mirror cowls in ASA

Accident-damaged mirror cowls on a 1997 Honda ST1100 Pan European: parts Honda no longer supplies. Printed in black UV-stable ASA from the owner's files within 24 hours of the material arriving; hand-finished to satin black and fitted with the original indicator lenses.

Colin W· Oxfordshire· Jun 2026

A-level fine art / sculpture

From photogrammetry to silicone bust, 8-part PLA mould tooling for an A-level art project

An A-level art student in the Midlands wanted to cast a full silicone portrait of her mother. We took the photogrammetry-derived mesh and printed the mould tooling in PLA, split across 8 parts so the geometry could be assembled, cast and demoulded cleanly. The student finished and painted the cast bust as her final coursework submission.

Anonymised· Midlands, UK· May 2026

Home decor / decorative lighting

A translucent book-shaped LED lamp for a short shelf

A semi-transparent, hollow 3D-printed lamp shaped like a row of books — short enough to fit a specific short shelf, hollow inside to house an LED strip, translucent enough for the warm glow to read through. A custom commission with no off-the-shelf equivalent, refined collaboratively until it hit Julianne's brief.

Julianne

Motorcycle / personal restoration

A custom toolbox cover for a daily-commuter motorbike — replacing a part that was never there

A 3D-printed replacement toolbox cover for a daily-commuter motorbike that had been missing the OEM part for two years. Designed in CAD by the customer, printed in ASA — the right material for outdoor UV-exposed automotive use.

Olivier A· Cardiff· Apr 2026

CASE STUDY

Heritage tooling / personal restoration

Reverse-engineering a ribber dial for a 100-year-old circular sewing machine

A working ribber dial for a 100-year-old circular sock-knitting machine. No drawings, no spares — just measurements taken from the original parts and SLA prints at the tolerances the mechanism actually needed.

David Johnston· Apr 2026

Hobbyist electronics

OpenSCAD DAC bracket — print precision you can't hit by hand

A small bracket to hold an AliExpress DAC board, designed in OpenSCAD by a hobbyist who needed dimensional accuracy he couldn't get hand-fabricating. Two iterations. "The print was excellent."

speedfox· Feb 2026

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