WoodMarvels Blog

WoodMarvels.com has now released a new woodworking project, a deceptively simple marble game whose only rule is to use the power of momentum in order to get as close to the edge as possible without falling into the gutter. What makes this game challenging is that two rubber bands need to be used who have a mind of their own.
This project is available in as a 6mm thick Eurolite plywood kit measuring 30cm by 17cm wide with a height of [...]

I have decided to stop uploading WoodMarvels.com animations to Revver.com. The fact is that they are straight-out lying and I am not going to play their games any longer. They are suppose to pay every, producers of videos and so far, this year, they have not paid me a cent. It isn’t the amount of money that bothers me, it’s the fact that they are making money off my work and refusing to pay me the promised 50% they said [...]

I did a guest post a few days ago for Ponoko regarding methods of saving lots of money in cutting costs as WoodMarvels.com is the largest supplier of designs to Ponoko. Ponoko is our laser cut kits producer.
You can read about it here:
How Jon Cantin shaved 71% off his making costs

The WoodMarvels.com Ferris Wheel has been a pretty popular model on our site and finally, it’s available without the need to buy any round dowels. The model has been updated and now, everything comes in one kit. We also streamlined the design, made it slightly easier to build and produced a far more straight-forward assembly animation as well. The dimensions are about the same as the original and it’s available in both laser cut and blueprint form right now. Of [...]

We are moving our site to a faster server with a bunch of other upgrades, we have completed a major update to our e-commerce platform now (which is why it was up/down for the past few days) and now time for the whole site to move.
These changes are necessary to allow even faster browsing and downloading of our files online which should now be working shortly once I complete a few more updates. Things will be funky for the next [...]

Our assembly animations for our Stegosaurus and Parasaurolophus have been updated in full HD. They look great! The models are the same but now it’s much clearer. You can find these two dinosaurs and plenty more at WoodMarvels.com under Theme / Pre-Historic / Dinosaurs.
Parasaurolophus

Stegosaurus

I originally started WoodMarvels.com to revolutionize the way wood project plans were being made and to change people’s attitudes regarding wood “toys”. You can do anything imaginable with plastic but the same, with a little creativity and passion can also be made with wood!
With the release of my newest model, the Ruskian Fortress, we hit our 100th SKU (excludes collaborations and puzzles) and we now have 423 options for sale on our site in blueprint and laser cut kits with [...]

After I finished the first draft of my upcoming motivational/inspirational book which I wrote after my WoodMarvels.com book, I decided to jump into a third, this time, science fiction tentatively titled 2847AD. As part of the creative process, I had to create a whole new world in my mind of which I will begin creating kits for on WoodMarvels.com. The first of which is the Ruskian Fortress which is now available in both laser cut and blueprint form on the [...]

WoodMarvels.com has now launched a new type of product line that allows you to assemble and create whatever you want using our wooden, laser cut canvas! It’s similar to filling-in the squares with a pen or other childhood paper games but in this case, you have three different initial color “color combinations” and from there, you can design, color and paint your way to something really amazing.
We created a new heading for this product called Canvas under Special. Right now, [...]

Although the design is the same, the laser cut kit options have now changed for our WoodMarvels.com Bread Crumb Cutting Tray. It is now available in two sizes, 10mm and 6mm thick plywood instead of the only 9mm thick option we had previously.
Approximate dimensions of 14cm long, 2.5cm high and with a width of 19cm using a material thickness of 6mm. While it’s 31cm long, 4cm high and with a width of 40cm using a thickness of 10mm. You can [...]