WoodMarvels Blog

WoodMarvels.com is proud to announce that we have a new designer on our site, Tee Smith, whose background is in industrial design. He designed wonderfully unique, mosquito inspired, wooden coasters which we are very pleased to now have available on our site. These coasters are about 9cm round and come laser-cut on-demand right to your front door. You get six of these with every order, perfect for large families or when visitors come.
You can find these great looking mozzy coasters [...]

Now that we have switched everything over to blip.tv except for our blog postings, the question of HD comment is something to consider as it is supported by our new video provider, Blip.tv.
Is going HD possible?
Absolutely! All our files are electronic so re-rendering content to HD quality is only a question of time… and hence the issue. I will be upgrading to a new laptop at the end of the year with a 64bit OS (ei: more ram) and quad/octa [...]

I am pleased to launch our first series of gaming tables here at WoodMarvels.com. Our first table was designed by Simon who is the newest designer to join our team and based off his initial design, we decided to launch an additional table at a reduced price with less complexity. Simon’s gaming table was featured in Wired Magazine and the attention to detail that he put into his piece is incredible! It features inlayed colored acrylic pieces, a very strong [...]

We have been incredibly busy here developing a number of new and exciting products here at WoodMarvels.com and I wanted to share with you a product we hope to launch in the coming days. A Gaming Table! The music for our upcoming gaming table came out just perfectly… more details soon.

Jamble Magazine is an online magazine which focuses on green travel and global music, though we haven’t made anything in the music department, they did find something on our site related to travel.
Read the article: Make it yourself: wood travel toys

Revver.com has been a great service for WoodMarvels.com but guess what, they are down again! I have had enough! So, today, we are switching all our videos to the Blip.tv platform. We will still be uploading our stuff to Revver.com but after today, no longer play an active role in our development.
As a result of this change, I had to take a few videos off our homepage as they where not uploaded to Blip.tv yet but rest assured, once they [...]

We get a lot of inquiries regarding the material properties of our most used material, EuroLite Plywood, on WoodMarvels.com. This material is used for our laser cut kits so under our Corporate heading, you can now find a very detailed explanation of the properties that make-up this incredibly versatile wood product. We are hoping to offer hardwood and softwoods sometime in the future.

I get this question often so by popular demand, here is a listing of almost everything that makes WoodMarvels.com possible.
3D Modeling Software
Every model on WoodMarvels.com was built using Autodesks 3D Studio Max version 6. This is a version that is a few years old but it does the job tasked to it wonderfully. I do plan on upgrading to the latest once I convert everything to a 64 bit operating system but for now, 32 bit XP works nicely for [...]

Alexa’s Blog, titled “Web Discovery Machine” was running a contest over the holidays regarding who can submit the best Haiku describing their service. I submitted two:
My site’s Oxygen,
Visitors are Hydrogen,
Alexa is Rain.
(I realized later I should have written Alexa’s Water)
My site’s a city,
Traffic comes from all corners,
Roads are Alexa.
I didn’t win but at least I got an honorable mention by Geoffrey! The prize, a million free banner impressions on Alexa… that would have been AMAZING! Better luck next time [...]

WoodMarvels.com has now completed an update to our Super Snail which features a hidden cargo compartment, four sturdy wheels and best of all, square dowels that are cut at the same time as the rest of the model!
Our Super Snail is now available in two sizes, our 6mm thick laser-cut kit is about 20cm long, 9cm high and with a width of 4cm while the 10mm thick version is 34cm long, 15cm high and with a width of 6.5cm.
You can [...]