As San Diego’s largest waterjet machine shop we’ve cut a LOT of carbon fiber!  We’ve done jobs in excess of $100,000 in raw carbon fiber cost, supplied by customers that trust us.

We’ve spent a lot of time dialing in our settings and improving our equipment to go from 30 out of 50 failures with delamination cutting non-drilled 1/8″ thick G10 (cuts like CF) with 1/8″ holes to 0 out of 100.  This saves a lot of money compared to predrilling pierces.

We have purchased the OMAX drill retrofit to allow us to predrill when a delamination is unacceptable.  It’s typically cheaper to use our no drill option but when the parts are large or expensive we will use the drill.  On smaller parts that are easily recut, it is not worth the additional drilling expense.   Our failure rate without drilling is around 1 in 1000 delamination.  

Potential Issues

Carbon fiber raw material quality differs greatly between suppliers.  If there is any void (bubble) the carbon fiber will delaminate as the waterjet stream pierces the bubble and spreads laterally.  There is no way to prevent this type of delamination on a waterjet.  This is why we always suggest using a high quality carbon fiber.  We’ve definitely had some lower quality carbon fiber provided by some customers, usually for non critical applications like custom automotive parts.  When we have a say, we always prefer to use Rock West brand Carbon fiber sheets.  You can reach out to them directly, or check with us because we may have some in stock and we receive regular shipments from them. Rock West Composites

• AS9100d / ISO9001 implemented with certification expected Feb 2026

  • Stage 2 was completed in Jan 2026 with no major, no minor, and no recommendations for improvement.
  • Just waiting on our auditor to upload our certs.
• ITAR compliant
  • CMMC Nist800-171 in process.

• Carbon fiber CNC machining

• CNC Waterjet custom drone parts

• Aerospace Applications

• Spacecraft Applications

• Defense Drones, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

  • Are you in need of custom carbon fiber parts for your military and defense related drones?  You’ve come to the right place.  We support many companies that produce tactical drones, fiber optic drones, FPV, and surveillance drones.
  • We produce rapid prototypes sometimes as quick as 1 day turnaround.  
  • Capacity to ship 100s of carbon fiber drone kits per week.

• Custom carbon fiber parts for your application

• Many of the items we cut cannot be shown online, but here are a few.