I'm a mechanical engineer who kept watching great cars get parted out because one bracket, one caliper, one housing couldn't be sourced anymore. After fifteen years in precision manufacturing and motorsport support, the pattern became impossible to ignore: the most interesting machines were being retired not by choice, but by the disappearance of a single critical component.
Based in the old industrial quarter, the studio operates as a one-person workshop with direct access to a network of specialized machinists, foundries, and metrology labs. There are no account managers, no outsourced drafting teams, and no generic CAD farms. If it's your project, it's on my screen — from the first measurement to the final tolerance check.
The economics of modern manufacturing don't favor low-volume, irregularly-shaped metal parts from forty years ago. Tooling gets scrapped, drawings get lost, and the institutional knowledge walks out the door when the last engineer retires. What remains is a growing gap between the cars people want to keep and the parts needed to keep them moving.
This studio exists to close that gap — one component at a time, with the same precision standards that built the originals, documented well enough that the work never has to be done twice.
Primary CAD platform is SolidWorks with full simulation suite. Metrology equipment includes a handheld structured-light scanner and a coordinate measuring arm for sub-0.05mm accuracy on complex geometries. Drawings are delivered in whatever format your machinist prefers — PDF, DWG, STEP, or native SolidWorks files with full feature trees.
Most projects start with an email and a few photos. From there, we'll determine whether the part can be measured in-house, whether it needs scanning, or whether we're working from fragments and factory documentation. Turnaround for a complete drawing set typically ranges from two weeks for simple brackets to eight weeks for complex castings or assemblies requiring simulation.