It started with a part nobody sold

A dishwasher rack clip. Two dollars of plastic, and without it the top basket collapses every time you load it. The manufacturer had discontinued the model. The importer had moved on. The only option on offer was a replacement basket for well over a hundred dollars, on a machine that was otherwise completely fine.

So we measured the broken one, drew it, and printed it. It took an evening. It cost almost nothing. And it worked, which was the part that stuck with us, because the whole thing had been presented as impossible right up until the moment it took an evening.

Then it happened again. A neighbour's window stay. A friend's vacuum attachment. Someone's mother's sewing machine bobbin case, for a machine older than any of us. Every time, the same story: a small piece of plastic had failed, the part did not exist any more, and a working thing was about to be thrown out over it. That is a strange way to run a country at the bottom of the world, where everything arrives in a container and nothing is easy to replace.

What we actually do

We print the part. If you have a model, send it. If you do not, send photos of the broken piece beside a ruler and we will draw it from that, which is what most people end up doing. We choose the material for where the part actually lives rather than for what is cheapest to print, and we tell you honestly when something really ought to be metal.

The same machines make the other half of what we do: figurines. Characters people have played for years and never had a model for, pets, display pieces, tabletop armies. It turns out the skill is the same either way. Measure carefully, print in the right material, clean it up properly, and do not hand someone something you would not accept yourself.

Made here

Everything is printed in Auckland and posted from here, tracked, anywhere in New Zealand. Nothing is drop-shipped, nothing sits in a warehouse offshore waiting on a container, and there is no four-week wait on a part the size of a coin. You are dealing with the people who print it.

Where we sell ready-made pieces from the catalogue, the designs come from independent sculptors who license their work for commercial printing. Every product page names the designer and links back to their original. They did the hard part and they should be credited for it.

What we will not do

• Print something whose licence forbids it, however much you want it.
• Tell you a printed part will hold when we do not believe it will.
• Take an order we cannot deliver in the time we quoted.
• Invent a review. Everything on this site was written by someone who bought something.