Hi, I’m Dom Chinea

Dom is best known for his master metal work in the RTS Award-winning, BBC One show, The Repair Shop. Bringing broken and much loved treasures back to life, the show has been a runaway success and is a moving production that manages to combine jaw dropping restoration with warmth, humour and ingenuity.

ABOUT DOM

There is much more to Dom that just metal work though. Working across many mediumsset design, prop making, metal work, sign writing & restoration; Dom’s skills and interests help him turn his hand to a huge variety of projects, bringing the same enthusiasm and energy to all his pursuits. An advocate of age old craftsmanship, drawing and working by hand if possible.

 

Barn find Porsche 356 Project Begins

It's FINALLY time to start the restoration of my PORSCHE 356! Found in a barn in Pennsylvania, it's been sitting around my workshop for over a year now, so I need to start stripping it. With a little help from two of my talented friends, I found out a few things about it...

Follow ME on Instagram

 
My book is out this week! I can’t really believe I am typing that to be honest, it’s been a lot of work from all of the team involved, I really hope you enjoy it, The book is full of useful information about over 150 tools, there fasci
It’s an exciting day today, I am getting the Porsche 3D scanned! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It’s a fascinating process I have never had any experience with before, having a 3D model of the car will help me so much with the restoration, I can’t
I am the proud new owner of this bus and I’m absolutely chuffed! Today’s YouTube video explains more, I hope you like it! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I can’t wait to take it to some shows very soon, love it! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #vw #vwsplitscreen #s
It’s happening! Ranalah number 3 is about to be with us! A huge thanks to @eastcoastcasting.co.uk for doing such a fantastic job of every single casting that They have delivered.. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ There is a lot more in the works, all will be reve