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Six Design Studio is where ideas become reality.

Custom fabrication, movie props, industrial design, modelmaking, signage, and immersive environments—documenting the process, one build at a time.
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10/27/2026

Every workshop has them...
Rows of incredibly capable machines that all look the same. Black boxes. Grey boxes. Model numbers. They’re brilliantly engineered, but they never really inspired me.
A few years ago, almost as an experiment, I transformed my Cricut into Groove-O-Matic I. I didn’t know it then, but that little project planted a seed. It showed me that the tools I work with every day didn’t have to be anonymous—they could have personalities, stories, and become part of the creative process themselves. That idea never left me.
Today, every machine that enters my workshop starts life exactly as its manufacturer intended. It goes to work, earns its place, and proves itself as a reliable production tool. Only then does it earn its rebirth. I don’t modify these machines to improve their engineering—that’s already been done by the people who designed them. The transformation is about giving a trusted workhorse an identity that reflects the workshop it calls home.
The first rebirth in this new chapter is Gamma Kiln, built on the excellent foundation of the Phrozen 3D Printer Mega Cure. This is just the beginning…

10/16/2026

Some projects have a way of becoming something completely different than what you originally planned.
This one started life as a well used 5 year old Losi Lasernut. It was already a capable RC platform, but I kept looking at it and thinking... what if it wasn’t a
race buggy at all? So the transformation began.

The body was stripped down and repainted. Every graphic was designed from scratch. The chassis and cage were weathered, the cockpit was completely rebuilt, and a custom astronaut pilot was designed, printed, painted and installed. Storage crates, instruments, lighting and dozens of tiny details slowly turned it into something that felt like it had lived a life before it ever reached my workbench. Projects like this are why I love making. It’s never just about modifying something—it’s about imagining what it could have been and then building that version. By the time this one rolled out of the shop, it had stopped being an RC car. It had become Recon Unit 06. Mission Status:

🪐 Recon Unit 06 has returned safely to outpost_six 🪐

10/05/2026

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09/25/2026

Some projects are just a little more special than others.
Dear friends of our family welcomed a baby boy months ago, and I wanted to make something personal for his room rather than buy something off the shelf.
So I designed a custom name plate for little Winston—starting in Photoshop, then cutting the individual pieces from basswood, painting them by hand, and assembling everything into a one-of-a-kind sign.The mid-century style felt like the perfect fit, and seeing it hanging proudly on Winston’s bedroom door made the whole project worthwhile. Sometimes the nicest things to make are the ones that are simply made for someone you care about.

09/22/2026

Every workshop has them...
Rows of incredibly capable machines that all look the same. Black boxes. Grey boxes. Model numbers. They’re brilliantly engineered, but they never really inspired me.

A few years ago, almost as an experiment, I transformed my Cricut into Groove-O-Matic I. I
didn’t know it then, but that little project planted a seed. It showed me that the tools I work with
every day didn’t have to be anonymous—they could have personalities, stories, and become
part of the creative process themselves. That idea never left me.

Today, every machine that enters my workshop starts life exactly as its manufacturer intended. It goes to work, earns its place, and proves itself as a reliable production tool. Only then does it earn its rebirth. I don’t modify these machines to improve their engineering—that’s already been done by the people who designed them. The transformation is about giving a trusted workhorse an identity that reflects the workshop it calls home.

The first rebirth in this new chapter is Gamma Kiln, built on the excellent foundation of the Phrozen Mega Cure.

This is just the beginning.

08/31/2026

Some projects are just a little more special than others.
Dear friends of our family welcomed a baby boy six months ago, and I wanted to make something personal for his room rather than buy something off the shelf.
So I designed a custom name plate for little Winston—starting in Photoshop, then cutting the individual pieces from basswood, painting them by hand, and assembling everything into a one-of-a-kind sign. The mid-century style felt like the perfect fit, and seeing it hanging proudly on Winston’s bedroom door made the whole project worthwhile. Sometimes the nicest things to make are the ones that are simply made for someone you care about.

03/28/2026

New tools in the shop today…

The right tool doesn’t just do the job—
it makes you want to do it better.

These precision knives from Eric Streble at Botzen Designs () absolutely hit that mark.

The old blades have been officially reassigned to rough duty 😄

Now the only problem is figuring out what I’m about to cut unnecessarily well.

03/23/2026

Now what’s he up to….

03/12/2026

Born out of pure necessity — and a little bit of studio chaos — Patina Pro is finally complete.

For years, all my weathering supplies lived in an open-top bin deep inside a cabinet. Every time I needed something, I had to pull the whole thing out, unload half of it, dig around, and then inevitably discover I’d already bought the same product twice because it was buried at the bottom. Not exactly a streamlined creative workflow. 😅

Then this old, beautifully battered cantilever toolbox crossed my path and it basically whispered, “I’m right for this job.” I couldn’t argue with that kind of vintage confidence.

The outside got a careful clean and a brushed-on clear coat to protect that glorious, hard-earned patina. The inside was stripped back, scrubbed, and treated to three coats of warm cream enamel so I could actually see everything (these old eyes appreciate the light colors!). Cork liners went in next to keep things quiet, tidy, and grippy.

Of course, a box like this needed a proper name — that’s just how my brain works. Patina Pro felt like something you might have found fully loaded in a 1950s auto-custom shop when pinstriping and hot rods ruled the streets.

Speaking of pinstriping… I’ll say it right here: I am definitely NOT a pinstriper. Huge respect to those who can do it properly. After my attempt at decorative striping, I naturally had to weather it back down — because a kit called Patina Pro absolutely needs patina of its own.

Final touch? A vegan leather wrap on the handle for comfort and style. And just like that, my messy bin became a mobile weathering command center.

Sometimes the best tools are the ones you rescue, repurpose, and make your own.

02/26/2026

Speaking of shop infrastructure…

Late last year I added a new tool to the shop: an ELEGOO Centauri.
On the surface it’s “just” a 3D printer. But for me, bringing something like this into the shop isn’t about gadgets — it’s about removing friction between an idea and a physical object.

There are things I design that don’t make sense to laser cut or even 3D print in resin.

Things I don’t want to machine.

Things I used to sketch, then shelve, because the path from idea to object was too long or too limiting.

The Centauri changes that.

It opens the door to durable custom parts, jigs, enclosures, components, mockups, and strange little experiments that can exist the same day they’re imagined. It doesn’t replace the hands-on work I love — it multiplies it.

For Six Design, 2026 is shaping up to be a year of capability expansion.

More ways to build.

More ways to test ideas.

More ways to let process lead the work.

This is a big piece of that puzzle. And I’m just getting started.

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