3D printing · Folkestone, Kent
3D printing in Folkestone, on your deadline. And the same part again when you reorder
Prototypes, jigs, replacement parts and production runs of ten to two hundred, printed in Folkestone for businesses across Kent. Standard turnaround is 5–7 working days, express is 2–3 working days, and a revision can be on the machine the same afternoon.
Your model is measured in your own browser. Nothing reaches us until you place an order.
Model.3mf
Sliced300 layers
PrintedPLA · 48 g
One bracket at three stages: the model, the sliced file and the printed part. Anything inside 256 × 256 × 256 mm prints in one piece.
- Standard turnaround
- 5–7 working days
- Build volume
- 256 × 256 × 256 mm
- Typical tolerance
- ±0.3 mm
- Minimum order
- £30
- Collection
- Folkestone
- Postage
- UK-wide, tracked
Services
What businesses ask us to print
Rapid prototyping
Test the revision before you commit to tooling or a supplier. The first iteration is usually on the plate within a working day of the file arriving.
From£30Small-batch production
Ten to two hundred identical parts from one held file, with no tooling bill and a per-unit price that steps down at 5, 10, 25 and 50 units.
From£30Jigs, fixtures & tooling
Drill guides, assembly fixtures, gauges and mounts built to the dimensions of your bench, in filaments stiff enough to hold under clamp load.
From£30One-off & replacement parts
The discontinued clip, guide or bracket that stopped the line. Measured with callipers from the broken original and corrected where it was weak.
From£303D design & CAD
For businesses with a sketch, a photograph or a sample but no model. Hours are estimated before work starts and you own every file at the end.
Rate£42/hr
Why a small workshop
Fewer people between your file and the machine
A large bureau gives you capacity you will not use and a queue you cannot see into. What a small shop gives you instead is a short chain of command, and that is worth more on the work most businesses actually order.
You talk to the person printing it
There is no account manager in the middle. Whoever reads your file, orients it and pulls it off the plate is the person who answers the phone, so a question about wall thickness gets an answer rather than a ticket number.
A revision can go on the machine the same afternoon
Send a change at eleven and it can be printing by two. There is no order queue to join and no production slot to book, so the loop between a design review and a part in your hand is measured in hours.
A reorder is the same file, so it is the same part
Material, layer height, wall count, infill and orientation are recorded against your job. Order the part again in six months and it is printed from that recipe rather than interpreted afresh, and you hear from us first if anything has to change.
Capabilities
Where printing is the right answer, and where it is not
Knowing where the process stops is part of the service. If your job belongs on a mill, in a mould or with a certified supplier, you will hear it on the first call rather than after the parts arrive.
What we are good at
- Runs of one to two hundred parts, with the per-unit price stepping down at 5, 10, 25 and 50
- Parts up to 256 × 256 × 256 mm in one piece, and larger assemblies split and bonded
- Functional fits, clearances and moving assemblies held to about ±0.3 mm
- 9 filaments, from PLA for a fit check to carbon-filled PETG for tooling
- Files kept on record, so a repeat order is a reprint rather than a new project
What we will send you elsewhere for
- Over about 500 units: injection moulding wins on cost per part, even after tooling
- Fits tighter than ±0.3 mm. That is machining work, and we will say so before you order
- Food-contact, medical, certified or safety-critical parts, and anything used as a lifting point
- Continuous service above about 90°C, where the filaments we run start to lose their shape
Longest single axis 256 mm
How it works
Four steps from file to finished parts
Most jobs run start to finish in 5–7 working days. You deal with one person throughout, and nothing is charged until the price and the date are agreed.
- 01
Send the file
Drop an STL or 3MF onto the quote page for a price in seconds, or email a sketch, a photograph or the broken part. The model is measured in your browser and never leaves your machine until you order.
- 02
We confirm the price
We slice the file, check it will print the way the part has to work, and come back with a fixed price and a date. No VAT: we're not VAT registered.
- 03
It prints in Folkestone
The job runs here on the Bambu Lab P1P and Bambu Lab A1. Material, layer height, wall count, infill and orientation are all recorded against your job so the run can be repeated exactly.
- 04
Collect or we post it
Collect from Folkestone by arrangement, or we post tracked anywhere in the UK. Invoiced on completion, 14 days for account customers.
Service area
Printed in Folkestone, delivered across east Kent
Most of the work we take on travels less than an hour: the harbour trades in Folkestone and Dover, the units around Cheriton and the Eurotunnel terminal, the marine and repair businesses along the coast, and the studios and workshops inland towards Ashford and Canterbury.
Collection is from Folkestone by arrangement, usually the day a job comes off the plate. Everything else goes tracked, and we post UK-wide.
Send the file and we will price it today
Upload a model for an instant estimate, or tell us what the part has to do and we will work out whether printing is the right way to make it. Minimum order £30, standard turnaround 5–7 working days.
Read before you order
- Materials comparedHeat, sunlight, stiffness and cost per part, filament by filament.
- Questions buyers askLead times, tolerances, repeat orders, files, invoicing and NDAs.
- PLA vs PETG: which to chooseThe two filaments that cover about 90% of the work we do, compared on the four things that decide it: heat, sunlight, impact and cost.
- Designing for 3D printingThe design decisions that most often turn a good model into a bad part, and what to change instead.
- 3D printing costs in the UKA full breakdown of what goes into a printing quote, using the same figures our own calculator runs on.
- Louis Wharmby, who runs the workshopWho you are actually dealing with, and what that changes.