Services

Formworks

Specialist coachbuilding, pattern making, surface development, and metal forming for one-off parts, prototypes, and difficult geometry.

Built for clients who need one-off panels, prototype surfaces, or complex formed parts where surface quality, proportion, and manual skill matter.

I know when detail is worth the extra hours — and when it isn't.

  • Coachbuilding
  • Pattern Making
  • Metal Forming
  • 3D Print
  • CNC Support

Services

Coachbuilt and development-led work

Coachbuilt Panels

One-off and low-volume aluminium panels shaped by hand for restorations, custom builds, continuation work, and design-led fabrication.

Metal Forming

Compound curves, edge definition, wheeling, and refined surface development for jobs that need more than standard flat fabrication.

Prototype Development

Collaborative build support for designers, workshops, and makers developing unusual forms, proof-of-concept parts, or hard-to-source components.

Pattern Making

Pattern development, bucks, templates, and form studies to resolve shape accurately before final metalwork begins.

Development Work

The work doesn't stop at shaping finished metal. I also develop the geometry that gets you there: patterns, form studies, templates, and build logic that help a difficult surface become a buildable part.

Where it improves speed or accuracy, that can include 3D printing and CNC-cut support elements — part of the coachbuilt workflow, not a replacement for it.

Typical Clients

  • Restoration and custom automotive workshops
  • Designers developing one-off objects or surfaces
  • Fabricators needing specialist shaping support
  • Makers with unusual geometry or hard-to-source parts

What I Can Deliver

  • Shaped aluminium panels and body sections
  • Surface development for prototypes and concept work
  • Repair or recreation of difficult formed details
  • Hands-on support where geometry needs resolving before fabrication

Why Toby

  • Coachbuilding methods adapted to bespoke contemporary work
  • Strong eye for line, proportion, and surface flow
  • Knows when to move fast and when the extra hours are justified
  • Comfortable with sculptural, automotive, and experimental briefs
  • Best suited to one-offs, difficult geometry, and detail-sensitive fabrication

How Enquiries Start

  1. Send drawings, photos, dimensions, or a short brief describing the part, surface, or problem you need help with.
  2. Toby reviews the brief — geometry, finish expectations, and whether the job needs shaping, development, repair, or fabrication support.
  3. From there you can discuss scope, timing, and the right next step for the work.