Send it anyway.
FJM Manufacturing designs and builds its own fixtures and workholding in-house. Founder Frederick John Martin is a trained Tool and Die Maker — which means the awkward, thin-walled, no-obvious-clamping-surface parts other shops turn down are the parts we quote.
Tolerances to ±0.0001″ · No minimum order · Next-business-day quotes
When three shops in a row decline your job, the reason is rarely that the part cannot be machined. It is that holding it takes a fixture nobody wants to build.
Designing and cutting custom workholding is a separate skill from running a machine. Most job shops do not have it in-house, so the honest calculation is that the fixture costs more than the job earns — and you get a no with no explanation.
At FJM the fixture work happens under the same roof, by the same person who machines the part. That changes which jobs are worth taking.
If you are not sure whether your part is machinable, that is exactly the conversation to have. Send a drawing, a STEP file, or the part itself.
Workholding built for your part is retained. Reorders skip the setup, so lead time drops.
Documented setups mean repeat parts measure the same rather than being re-figured-out.
100% inspection against print on a granite plate with a TESA height gauge.
Tolerances held to ±0.0001″ on critical features. Every part is inspected against print before it ships — 100% inspection, not sampling — on a granite surface plate with a TESA height gauge.
Aluminum 6061 and 7075. Stainless 303, 304, 316, 420, 440 and 17-4 PH. Carbon steels and mold steels. Titanium. Brass, bronze and copper. Engineering plastics including Delrin, PEEK, UHMW and PTFE.
Yes, in-house. Frederick John Martin trained as a Tool and Die Maker, and fixture and workholding design is a core part of the shop’s capability rather than something outsourced. A meaningful share of the work here arrives because another shop declined it.
Yes. FJM offers 3D scanning and reverse engineering and can work directly from a sample part with no drawing or CAD model.
Yes. Fixtures and setups are retained, so reorders are faster and batch-to-batch consistency is maintained.
There is no minimum order quantity. A single prototype, a one-off replacement, or a repair part is a real job here.
Quotes come back the next business day. Rush service is available, including next-morning turnaround on suitable jobs. The shop opens at 6:00 AM Monday through Friday.
Tolerances to ±0.0001″ on critical features. Every part is inspected against print before it ships — 100% inspection, not sampling — on a granite surface plate with a TESA height gauge.
Yes. Anodizing, plating, heat treatment and passivation are managed on your behalf, so parts arrive finished rather than as raw machined blanks. Light assembly is also available.
Upload a drawing or a STEP file, or drop a sample off in Nashua and we will scan it. Quotes come back the next business day.
