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We are slowly migrating all of our designs away from round dowels and into pre-cut square ones that come with the model. There are two HUGE advantages to this! First, the client no longer needs to go to the hardware store to find, measure and cut wooden dowels and second, everything “just fits” right out of the box! So if you feel you are re-living past Woodmarvels.com blog posts, now you know why, it isn’t deja vue > Laser-Cut Kits [...]

I just saw a screencast from Magento, our e-commerce platform, that finally, downloadable products are going to be possible! This is fantastic news as it means you no can get access to your PDFs immediately once the payment is processed by Paypal instead of having to wait for us to manually e-mail it to you! This update also seems to offer storage of previously purchased PDFs, which would be a great feature for our customers. This also opens-up many other [...]

We have now completed our transition from our old “hardwood” to our new “laser cut” 3D animation format. The Ferris Wheel animation really looks fantastic using this new technique with all the contrasts it provides. Here is the before and after shot, we are sure you will agree it never looked better! We are also planning a dowel free version so we have a lot of conversions yet to be done so everything is available flat-packed and ready for assembly [...]

Yes, you have read right… WoodMarvels.com has now launched its custom design services! If there is a product you want designed and sent directly to your home, WoodMarvels.com is the place to go! We will be offering packages for non-designers as well to get their ideas on-demand our site so they can generate some revenue from their concepts but we are still in the middle of figuring-out a competitive and attractive package in that area sometime in the New Year. [...]

We have completed our first run of design updates to WoodMarvels.com… the home page is far more user friendly and we have added a featured designs and featured 3d animations section to it as well. We will be continuing the improvements being done to WoodMarvels.com and look forward to a prosperous New Year. Designers wanted WoodMarvels.com is serious about the possibilities that are offered due to on-demand technologies, as such, we are searching to form partnerships with designers who are [...]

Things have been crazy here behind the scenes with lots of fantastic announcements coming very soon! This year has been a fantastic one for WoodMarvels.com. We achieved a heck of a lot, set a very strong foundation for the coming year. I am also very happy to announce the release of our first Amazing Train! What makes this train amazing? Well, for starters, it allows your child to paint or draw the boiler for that totally custom look. In addition, [...]

We take customer service seriously at WoodMarvels.com so we launched a forum… it’s also a fantastic way to interact with us on a more personal basis. You can visit the WoodMarvels.com Forum here: http://forum.woodmarvels.com We will also be announcing some exciting news very soon as well (the forum gives a hint to what that may be).

Working on models for WoodMarvels.com is great fun, there is no limit of things that I can create and I am bringing joy to people around the world who are both receiving pre-cut kits and blueprints which they can build on their own. We are now testing-out a few new concepts and if they work to plan, making fundamental changes to how we build things here (hence the hold-up in releasing new models). We will announce these at a later [...]

Apparently, Google Video is really scared of wooden clocks and desktop organizers! I got two letters (so far) from Google stating the following: —————— Hi, Your video “Build your own wooden Desktop Organizer!” (and “Build your own wooden Teaching Clock!” in another message) was rejected because it didn’t comply with our policies. Videos submitted to our program are subject to an initial review to ensure that they comply with our guidelines. When videos do not meet our standards, we disapprove [...]