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The mobile crane was the last model I plan on releasing until September as I will be working on my next WoodMarvels.com book titled “WoodMarvels.com Volume 2: 50 Laser Cut Plans” which I am planing on releasing in September
Laser cutters have come a very long way, surprisingly, you can get a table for only a few thousand dollars and they are, in many ways, just as capable of producing amazing work as a room full of traditional woodworking [...]

I’ve created a publishers account with Amazon and now you can view the inside of our very first book before making a purchasing decision.
WoodMarvels.com: Top Sellers
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HomeWorkshop.com picked their favorite designs among the thousands found on Ponoko and decided our serving table was worthy of recognition. Here’s the animation.

Read the blog article by HomeWorkshop.com

After close to a week and a half of straight rendering, I am happy to announce Mobile Crane B is now ready as both a laser cut kit and download PDF blueprint on WoodMarvels.com.
This is a major refresh of our original crane, I have included the original animation so you can see the differences. As such, I have retired the laser cut kit for first generation mobile and platform cranes we had. This crane features a host of features including [...]

I really enjoy watching shows that teach me about fabrication, it doesn’t really matter the project or the end goal, just showing how things go together is fascinating to me. While waiting for the second generation Mobile Crane to finish rendering, I found a fantastic show that puts the basic elements of construction as perfect as I have ever seen them. Doing DaVinci.
I watched it on YouTube so here you are, you can watch now this Doing DaVinci team puts [...]

This month, as it is every summer, things were a little slower than usual at WoodMarvels.com. It’s a good time to reflect, get some work out of the door and begin plans for the September to December holiday rush. Our video views kept growing as aggressively as before and as expected, got us some additional attention.
Over the month of June, 2009 we:

got some press from a big blog out of Japan and another portal site called Ohdeedoh out of the [...]