WoodMarvels Blog

WoodMarvels.com has just completed a major refresh of our Mayan Temple Bank to not only no longer require wooden dowels for our laser kit version but even better, tonnes of additional storage area and now it’s even bigger! Explaining this change is best done by showing you the old assembly video which you can contrast with the new one. Approximate dimensions of our new Mayan Temple Bank are 35cm long, 26.5cm high and with a width of 25cm. Material thickness [...]

We are very pleased to now have a second designer join us at WoodMarvels.com with their unique product, an slice office chair by Utzi! This chair has a very straight-forward assembly method of putting layer upon layer until using metal rods (you need to source locally) to keep everything together with a few bolts The chair is very strong and is almost 80cm high, a standard office chair size. You can find this chair under Featured Designers / Utzi and [...]

WoodMarvels.com has just released its Super Snail 10mm and 6mm laser cut kits. The real nice thing about these two kits is that the 6mm super snail comes in triplets! The approximate dimensions of the 6mm laser cut kit are 20cm long, 9cm high and with a width of 4cm while for the 10mm kit you are looking at 34cm long, 15cm high and with a width of 6.5cm. You can find the WoodMarvels.com Super Snail under Theme / Invertebrates.

WoodMarvels.com‘s ever popular dinosaur collection has now been updated, it includes a Stegosaur, Brontosaur, Pterodactyl, Centrosaur and a Parasaurolophus. The conversion away from round wooden dowels is slowly working its way though our site and we have a lot more models yet to be converted. The nice thing about using square dowels, other than being able to ship on-demand kits which include everything is that for our blueprint files, it actually gives the woodcrafters the freedom to choose the size [...]

I am very happy to announce that we have now launched our first designer on WoodMarvels.com, Sue Tyler. She is a New Zealand designer who specializes in jewelry and other small items which is a category of items we have been anxious to offer to our WoodMarvels.com clients for some time. You can order her items two ways, though our “Featured Designers” heading and selecting Sue Tyler or through “Jewelry” heading under “Pendants”. She is a prolific designer so we [...]

Here is how I would see the typical Chinese citizen living their life in the year 2140. Why Chinese? Because China WILL lead the environmental crusade through this century. They have the brain power (population x education x competition), the will and importantly, don’t live in a democratic country… these billions of people will be pushed into changing their lifestyle fundamentally with little choice but to comply or face severe consequences. 7am: Zhi Wen wakes-up to a flowing symphony of [...]