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Inc. Magazine used my Rhino on their site and not it’s landed on Core 77’s website, this is a well traveled rhino!
http://www.core77.com/blog/business/ponoko_hits_the_mainstream_14818.asp

If you want to read the article talking about Ponoko and WoodMarvels.com in Inc. Magazine, you can now do so online at
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20091001/the-future-of-manufacturing.html

Just starting to get delivered is this month’s October issue of Inc. Magazine with a 10 pages feature by our laser cutting kit provider, Ponoko! Dive inside and you can read a bit about WoodMarvels.com and our Rhinoceros! I haven’t seen it myself yet, just whispers in the night from others who have… can’t wait to get my issue to see it first hand!
Buzvia: Ponoko.com

We’ve found a material source in North America for our 6mm kits so now you can order all our 6mm laser cut kits without crazy shipping costs. Next step is finding 10mm and 4mm.

We’ve released an update to Phil Morrison’s Coaster and Die with the assembly animation being HD’ed at 640 x 385 and you can now purchase personal and commercial production EPS files as well, downloadable right into your WoodMarvels.com account.
You can find this cool dual purpose project under Collaborations / Phil Morrison at WoodMarvels.com.

We’ve released a new collaboration with Phil Morrison, a beautiful Infinity Winerack which is now available in PDF, EPS and kit form (soon) at WoodMarvels.com account.
You can find this winerack project under Collaborations / Phil Morrison at WoodMarvels.com.

I have had no choice but to disable our physical laser cut kits as the shipping prices to have them sent right to your door have more than tripled and I want to save people the time and trouble from ordering an item that costs a crazy amount to ship.
For instance, our Serving Tray Guillotine that sells for 54.94$US on our site costs north of 114$ to ship! Insane!!! I guess the good news from all this is whatever solution [...]

After a few days of heavy rendering, I can now finally release our newest WoodMarvels.com wood project, our very own CH-47 Chinook Helicopter!
This is the second helicopter on our site and features twin spinning rotors, removable side panels, extensive key way system for quick assembly and as usual, wickedly overbuilt to be strong as hell for any duties you may have in mind for it!
You can find the CH-47 Chinook Helicopter at WoodMarvels.com under Category / Vehicles / Aircraft in [...]

Since I discovered the nuances of laser cutting the designs found on WoodMarvels.com, I’ve become very good at optimizing files to make them affordable using as much board space as well as few doubled-up lines as possible. This means that I can usually cut my production costs in half as I wrote about earlier here: How Jon Cantin shaved 71% off his making costs
The Advent of CNC on-demand manufacturing
About a month ago, I started selling my optimized EPS files for [...]

This is a very easy to build Medieval Tower Bank that can hold a lot of loot! It features a slide for quick extraction of your gold should it be in imminent danger of being attacked.
This Medieval Tower Bank is available in downloadable EPS and PDF formats as well as laser cut kit which is cut on-demand.
You can find this Medieval Tower Bank at WoodMarvels.com under Category / Bank.