How We Produce and Design Our Parts
How We Design, Test, and Manufacture Our Tools
Shockwave tools are designed, tested, and manufactured in-house, using precise 3D printing and real suspension components to ensure accuracy, reliability, and repeatable results.
Design starts from real suspension parts
Suspension tooling is far more precise than it looks. Public specifications are often vague, incomplete, or simply wrong. Because of that, we don’t rely on datasheets alone.
Every tool is designed using measurements taken directly from real forks and shocks. We work with extremely tight tolerances, often around 0.01 mm, because even small errors can lead to poor fit or damaged components.
Designed for real-world DIY forces
Most suspension service operations involve relatively low torque. Tools are designed specifically around those real load cases, not around worst-case industrial assumptions.
Shapes, wall thickness, and contact surfaces are tuned carefully so the tool is strong enough for exactly what it’s designed to do, without unnecessary bulk or risk to the suspension parts.
Precision 3D printing, done properly
All tools are produced using high-precision FDM 3D printers that are carefully calibrated and monitored.
Dimensional accuracy, layer consistency, and repeatability matter far more than raw print speed. That’s why calibration, inspection, and consistency are part of the production process, not an afterthought.
Material choices and sustainability
Whenever possible, we prioritize the use of high quality recycled materials. Material selection is always based on real functional requirements: strength, durability, and dimensional stability.
The goal is not to overbuild tools, but to use materials that are appropriate for the loads involved and reliable over time.
Tested on real shocks, not just on a screen
Every design is tested on real suspension components before it’s ever sold. Not only force simulations, not assumptions, actual forks and shocks.
If a tool doesn’t work consistently in real use, it doesn’t get released.
Production is intentionally kept low volume. The same person who designs the tools also produces and inspects them. No outsourcing, no automated fulfillment, no anonymous factory batches.
Nothing leaves the workshop unless it meets the same standard we would trust on our own suspension.