Seven months. 114 orders. $32,500 in sales. 8 to 10 hours a week, on a desk in a home office.
I started Type II Studio after losing a business I spent a year building. My partner bought a 3D printer for us to mess around with at home. I had no modelling experience and no idea what to make with it.
Then I remembered a race in Iceland. Thirteen hours riding around a volcano, and nothing waiting at the finish line. No medal, nothing to show for the training or the flights or the suffering. So I made something to mark it. Friends saw it and wanted their own. Two weeks after deciding what I was making, a referral bought four for $400 and almost paid for the printer.
This guide is everything that happened between that day and this one, written down.
What is inside
28 pages. Ten chapters, then the templates.
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Pick something worth making. The four P filter, why niches beat cool prints, and the niches that are already dead.
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Validate before you spend. Give the first ten away, collect feedback and photos, and why nobody can see who paid.
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Gear that matters. The $200 setup, what to buy at $500, $1,500 and $5,000, materials, ventilation, when to add a second printer.
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From idea to sellable product. How I design without a modelling background, licensing other people's files, and getting to a usable file in an afternoon.
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Quality and waste. Filament storage, bed adhesion, batching a plate, and the finishing that makes a print look premium.
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Pricing. True cost per unit, the margin floor, why free shipping wins, and the exact reason most makers charge too little.
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Where to sell. Shopify against Etsy against markets against selling direct, and what a product page needs to convert.
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Content that sells. The posts that moved product for me, the ones that flopped, and why paid ads are the wrong first move.
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Partnerships. How I got artifacts onto event podiums, what to offer, and how to pitch the events closest to home.
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Operations. Packaging, worldwide shipping, custom order scope, refunds, and when to raise your prices.
Included with it
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The 30 day plan. Day by day from nothing to your first sale, with an outcome for each week.
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The pricing calculator. Fill in filament, time, packaging and fees and get a price you can defend.
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The launch checklist. Everything that has to be true before a stranger pays you.
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My full print profile. The exact Bambu Studio settings behind every Type II map. Every value, all six pages of it, with the four that actually matter explained.
Nobody hands over a working production profile. I am handing over mine.
Who this is for
Worth your money if you own a printer or are about to buy your first, you keep seeing physical problems you could solve if you had the skill, you are already part of a sport or trade or community, or you are selling already and undercharging and you know it.
Skip it if you want passive income without talking to a single person, you plan to pull files off MakerWorld and undercut everyone on price, you need the first version to be perfect before anyone sees it, or you are looking for a printer review or a slicer tutorial.
Why this costs $50
I get dozens of messages every week from people asking how to start this, and they come from everywhere. Plenty come from places where the average income is a fraction of what it is in Canada.
Learning these skills is one of the few real routes to independence for someone without much opportunity around them. A printer costs about $200. The skill costs time. Put the two together and a person can earn in a way that is not limited by where they happen to live, and that money goes back into their local economy.
So I am happy to hand this over for far less than I would charge a consulting client. If $50 is still out of reach where you are, email me and tell me your situation. I would rather you have it.
The details
- 28 page PDF, delivered by email the moment you order
- Read it on anything, print it if you want to write on it
- Written by Nate Chan, founder of Type II Studio, Vancouver BC
- Free updates when I revise it
If it does not give you something you can act on this week, email me and I will refund you. I have never wanted to keep money from someone who did not get what they came for.
Nothing in this guide is financial, tax, or legal advice. Speak to an accountant in your own region before registering a business.
