Reference piece
Helm-mount VHF holster.
A sheltered helm fitting. PETG gives a structural fit that takes modest UV without going brittle.
MarinePETG
Work · Cascais, Portugal
The work, labelled for what it is.
take-two is a young studio, and this page says so plainly. It holds our one client commission — a set of four pendant lamps for Alegria Vadia, a restaurant in Cascais — and a set of reference pieces. A reference piece shows how we would approach a part: the shape reconstructed, and the material we would specify for the real job. It is not a client job, and we will not dress one up as one. The pieces are there to show the part worth judging — how a shape is rebuilt, and which material it ends up in. Client jobs will follow. When they do, they will appear here named and photographed, not implied.
§ 01 — Client job
Delivered work.
№ 001 · Custom design · PLA
Pendant lamps, restaurant interior — Cascais.
Alegria Vadia, a restaurant in Cascais, commissioned a set of four pendant lamps for its interior. Each lamp was modelled in CAD, printed in PLA, then sanded and painted by hand before installation, where the set hangs today.
Read the case study →§ 02 — Reference pieces
What the process produces.
Everything below is a reference piece — shown to demonstrate the kind of part we make and the material we would specify for it. None of these is a client job, and none is shown as one.
Reference piece
Hatch-hinge replica.
A moving fit, rebuilt around its pin and its mounting holes rather than traced off the worn original.
MarinePETG
Reference piece
Cable pass-through, sailboat helm.
A cover that has to close a hole someone else drilled. The scan supplies the hole, not a catalogue size.
MarinePETG
Reference piece
Marine hose-union replica.
Deck level and sun-exposed, so ASA — UV-stable where PLA would chalk and fail in a season.
MarineASA
Reference piece
Window handle replica.
An indoor visual replica in PLA, matched to the original profile so one broken handle doesn't mean replacing every window.
HomePLA
Reference piece
Dashboard vent knob, classic-car interior.
Behind glass, cabin heat and direct sun would soften PLA, so ASA.
Classic carsASA
Reference piece
Flexible helm-console phone mount.
TPU, where a mount should flex and damp vibration instead of cracking.
CustomTPU
§ 03 — What comes next
How a job ends up on this page.
When a job is finished and the client is happy to be named, it gets a page like the lamps: the photo that started it, the scan or the measurements it came from, the CAD reconstruction, the material and the reason for it, and how the part sat when it went in. Most parts take three to seven days from the first photo to the finished piece, and the page is the record of that week.
Nothing goes up without the client's agreement, and the studio is young, so this page will grow slowly. That suits us. A short page of work we can stand behind is worth more than a long one we cannot.
Take two
Your part could be the next one here.
Send a photo on WhatsApp and we'll tell you what's possible — including when 3D printing is the wrong answer for your part. Quotes are per project, after we've seen it.
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The studio's main work is engineering replacement parts for boats, homes, classic cars and motorcycles.
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