About Flintform

One workshop, not a marketplace

Every order is printed here, by us, on our own machines — a Bambu Lab H2D and two Bambu Lab P2S printers. Nothing is farmed out to a network of strangers, so the person quoting your part is the person who prints it and the person who answers if something's wrong. That's also why we can tell you honestly when a part isn't a good fit for printing, instead of taking the order and hoping.

The price comes from your geometry, not your volume

Most instant quotes multiply your model's volume by a rate. We don't. Your price is worked out from your model's real geometry — its walls, its infill and the supports it needs — for the material and settings you choose. Whenever our slicer can measure your part, that measurement can only bring the price down; if it can't, we add a small safety margin, check the part by hand and refund any difference. The price you check out with is locked in. It's why the price sometimes drops after a few seconds: the first figure was deliberately cautious.

While it refines, the quote also tries your part at different angles and keeps the cheaper result. If tilting it saves material and time, that saving goes straight into your price. See how a price is built up.

You can watch it being printed

Sign in before you order and you can watch your own part on the printer, live, while it's being made. We built it because handing a file to a stranger and waiting is the least comfortable part of ordering a print — and because a workshop willing to show you the machine has nothing to hide.

What we stand behind

If a print arrives damaged, warped, or not as described, we reprint it free or refund you — your choice. Custom-made items are exempt from change-of-mind returns under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 — that's the law for bespoke goods, not a policy we invented — so this guarantee is how we make it right instead. Read the full terms.

What we're honest about

• We ship within the UK only at the moment. EU orders are paused while the GPSR requirements are worked through, and we'd rather say so than take an order we can't lawfully fulfil.
• We offer ten materials, from everyday PLA through to polycarbonate and carbon-fibre nylon. Nine are on our shelves; PPA-CF we source for each job, which adds a few days. If your part needs something we don't hold, we can usually source a specific filament — ask before you order rather than after.
• Our plate is 325 × 320 × 325 mm. Bigger parts aren't a dead end — we cut them into sections and join them. How large prints work.
• We're a young business and not VAT registered, so no VAT is added to your price and no VAT invoice can be issued.

Where we are

Our workshop is at Trencherfield Mill, Wigan (WN3 4DU). It's a workshop rather than a shop, so local collection is free and by arrangement: we email when your order is ready to agree a time. Please don't travel before that email arrives.

Getting hold of us

Email [email protected] and a person reads it. There's also a chat on the quote page if you'd rather ask before you commit — useful if you're unsure which material suits the job, or whether a model will print well at all.