what we do · 02 fabrication

fabrication.

We make what we draw — in our own workshop, with physical tools and the digital ones we’ve written to drive them. The people who draw a piece are the people who fit it.

a perspective view of toolpaths generated in cam software, on black
the shop floor

the right tool for the part.

For every part: the right machine, the right bit, the right jig. Some of our tools are steel. More and more of them are software we wrote ourselves — so a drawing can become a cutting file, a quote, or a wall you configure at home.

01 · our physical tools

what we make it with.

come and see it — book a visit →
machine · 6-axis
the kuka robot arm milling a foam seat form in the workshopphoto
the robot.
milling & forming.

Free-form surfaces milled straight from the 3D model, and copper pushed into shape a fraction of a millimetre at a time.

machine · 3-axis
the cnc router milling plywoodphoto
cnc router.
full sheets, cut to the drawing.

413 plywood panels for a vault, or one kitchen — same file, same tolerance.

machine · laser
the laser cutterphoto
laser cutter.
where it began, 2009.

The first machine in the studio. Still cuts the models, the ceilings and the jigs.

machine · clay
the wasp clay printer with a freshly printed twisted vase on its bedphoto
clay 3d printer.
printing in clay, coil by coil.

A WASP delta printer that builds clay up in thin coils, from a drawing to a vase, a tile or a test piece.

bench · hand
the timber shop at warehouse 7: table saw, benches and the clamp rackphoto
the workshop.
finishing, fitting, installing.

Where machined parts become furniture — fitted on site by the team that drew them.

02 · our digital tools

software that drives the machines.

Written in-house, because the tools we needed didn’t exist. They turn a brief into parts, joints, cutting files and a price — in minutes, not days.

01jimm.joinery information model and manufacturing.

Our own system for designing, pricing and making joinery from one set of rules. It does for joinery what BIM does for buildings: the drawing, the quote and the machine all read from one model, so they always agree.

how it works.
01Describe the piece — pick a builder and enter it column by column.
02The engine builds it: every board, joint and fitting from the rulebook.
03It counts and prices, nesting the parts onto real sheets, with the grain.
04It makes: the same parts become cutting programs and labels for the CNC.
grasshopperparts & jointscutting files
how JIMM works →
exploded diagram of the JIMM engine’s five layers: construction rules, units, builders, compiler, fabricationdiagram · the engine
the engine, layer by layer.Shared construction rules at the base, one builder for each family of joinery, fabrication at the top.
gif · quick quotes
quick quotes.Material, machine time and finish, priced as you design — so the budget is a design input.
03 · made here

drawn upstairs, made downstairs.

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