Engineering Patternmaking is a precision engineering-model making trade that supplies a diverse area of the manufacturing industry with a range of tooling or pattern equipment. This range includes timber, resin or metal patterns that are used to form:

• sand moulds to make metal castings
• tooling to form vacuum formed plastic products
• moulds for fibreglass products
• moulds for ceramic PC items
•  visual, testing and prototype models or models that are required for developing or forming engineering profiles or shapes.

Approximately 80 per cent of work carried out in the patternmaking trade is making tooling from timber. The tradesperson must be highly skilled, competent in the use of a variety of woodworking hand and power tools and a range of woodworking machines. They must also be able to work with epoxy resin, castable polyurethanes and a range of metals. Experienced Patternmakers also have the ability to interpret engineering drawings and develop engineering shapes, work accurately to fine tolerances and apply factors such as wood grain and contraction rates.

Audio history of engineering pattern makers living and working in this current period of time.