EXAMPLES OF OUR WORK
Acoustic Properties
Blade Meta One & Blade Meta Two
The Blade Meta One and Blade Meta Two speakers, are part of KEF’s flagship speaker range, designed, crafted, and tested in England. The design is a statement in both sound and appearance, carving a bold and striking presence. The shape of the cabinet form was inspired by Brancusi’s seminal modernist masterpiece ‘Bird in Space’. Tapering gracefully from top to bottom and from front to rear, the slim proportions made possible by the orientation of the bass drivers give Blade a sculptural presence in its own right. It’s an icon that engages every sense.
Two Part Moulds
Specac Ltd – Analytical Instrument
Many enclosures are created from two or more moulded parts forming a structurally sound and solid unit supporting internal electronics, optical, and other components in a stylish cohesive format.
Side-Cores
Perkin Elmer – Laboratory Instrument
This large and complex instrument cover – a paean to style – utilises a 10-part tool to create a curvaceous and daring design. Although eight separate loose-blocks must be fitted and removed for each impression this enables the tremendous styling freedom of this design.
Structural
Fairford Electronics –
Electrical Chassis Component
This electrical sub-chassis for Fairford Electronics is a purely structural component on which is built a digital soft-start electrical unit: our original cast and machined aluminium mould tool has produced over 5,000 impressions of these parts over the last 20 years.
Lightweight & Waterproof
Papercast Ltd – E-paper Displays
New lightweight and waterproof enclosure transformed these innovative e-paper bus stop timetables into a display robust enough to survive the high speed and high energy environment of an Americas Cup cockpit.
Multi-Part
Pall Electronics – Test Equipment
This 5-part, Beechcraft designed portable enclosure – replacing 4 separate instruments – is for on-ship electronic testing and is extremely robust, with the battery and display case moulded in a special, extra tough, polyurethane system.
Self-Contained
Omega Systems – Medical Instrument
This Beechcraft designed housing follows a popular format of a stylish moulded PU case enclosed on the underside with an inexpensive metal baseplate. This format allows a high degree of custom styling and structural possibilities whilst keeping mould and part costs low.
Compact
Specac Ltd – Spectral Analyser
This small unit is compact and sturdy and has to be a very solid and stable structure as it encloses electronic and optical components that require a high degree of structural rigidity. It has solid internal load-bearing areas as well as sealing grooves, access panels and precise side-cored apertures.
Design Challenges
Research Instrument
These structural components required extra tight tolerances to mate with precise injection-moulded mechanisms, all located in a complex undercut structure with a multitude of multi-plane fixings.
Musical Instruments
Serpent Horn
To create functional replicas of medieval musical instruments we made cast-resin tools from carved wood patterns based on MRI-type scans of a genuine antique instrument. The two moulded halves are bonded and made-good, then finished to replicate an original 17th Century instrument.
Moulded Detail
BioRobotics – Medical Instrument
Finely detailed logos or names can be created in reverse from a spark-eroded brass plaque, which is cast into the mould to provide the concise definition of a non-removable feature.