Ordering custom acrylic in Tijuana without crossing the border

Many of the orders we get from San Diego start the same way: someone who knows what fabrication costs up there and wonders whether a quote from Tijuana is worth the trouble. Usually the doubt is not the price. It is the process.

If you have never bought from a shop in Tijuana, it is natural to picture trips across the border, calls in two languages and a part that shows up different from what you ordered.

It all starts by email

A drawing, a file or a photo with dimensions. That is enough to quote, and when the part calls for it we send a visual before anything gets cut. Drawings in inches are fine: we work in whatever unit the part was drawn in.

Nobody has to cross to approve. Approval happens on the visual or on a sample.

The sample protects your run

For parts that will repeat, we build a sample first. You review it and test it, and once approved that piece becomes the standard for every run. Part one hundred matches part one.

And delivery

We deliver regularly to San Diego, Chula Vista and Otay Mesa, and the shop is 15 minutes from the Otay Mesa crossing. We have shipped work as far as Texas, Illinois and France.

Every shipment has its own details depending on the part and the destination, so delivery terms go in writing on the quote, agreed with you before production.

What to settle at the start

What the part is for, how many you will need in a year and the date you need it in place save almost every back and forth. Use sets material and thickness; quantity tells us whether a sample makes sense; the date lets us plan production backward.

If the part already exists and you just need more, a photo with a ruler next to it is usually enough to quote. To reproduce it exactly, it is best to get one to us.

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