WoodMarvels Blog

I was reading a few blog posts when I came upon this amazing car, the outer shell is all made of wood and it looks amazing! Even better… you can actually buy one, though I’m unsure what the local sheriff in town would say regarding road worthiness. The car is designed and manufactured by Sada-Kenbi out of Japan and they call this the “Wooden SuperCar Maniwa” which to me sounds like a very apt name for this creation. Here are [...]

I like trying new things out of the blue and this is a project that I just began on for fun once the Baliste Siege Weapon was completed and after a few days and a week of rendering… had very cool results! I have been exercising since I was a teenager… I love going to the gym and when I was in Canada, my own home gym. Something about eating well and lifting heavy weights just feels natural to me [...]

While I’m waiting for my latest project to finish rendering, which will be sometime tomorrow – I began working on a very complicated model that I’m sure will be by far the most complex things I’ve designed so far. A wooden version of the Spirit / Opportunity Rovers currently residing on Mars. As my only material is wood (by choice) and all my parts must be cut out of 2D – I think this is a great opportunity to really [...]

I’m happy to announce the released of the WoodMarvels Baliste Siege Weapon, I think out of all the siege weapons I’ve designed, this is by far the most powerful as the elastic band is stretched out by a lot from the start and more can easily be added. This Baliste also borrows very heavily from the design I made for the Mangonel but I can better appreciate the design process now that I’ve made one myself as to what people [...]

Here’s is a testimonial regarding a physical laser cut kit ordered just before Christmas: I have finished making the straddle carrier – it was great fun and went very well. As your website says it assembles pretty easily and the finished product is amazing considering it comes out of one piece of plywood. I am very impressed with the concept. I will show it to a few people and see if I can come up with some more orders for [...]

As you may have noticed, I’ve optimized the EPS files on this site to generally fit either 18.4cm square, 38.4cm square or 38.4cmx 79cm. The main reason for this is because our laser cutting supplier, Ponoko, uses these sizes. I do of course realize that other laser cutters have different board sizes, so if you wish to have something optimized at a different size, 50cm x 50cm for instance – the easiest thing to do is to ask me to [...]

I’m filling in an application form for a very special program I’m hoping to get myself into and part of the process is submitting some of my past work. In all honesty, I rarely go back and view the work I have done as no matter how much I did in the past, the queue in my mind looking forward is just as endless. I remember a comment on the forum that didn’t like me “advertising” a few days ago [...]

I’ve decided to update the design of the WoodMarvels Blog, one because the old one would cut half an inch off the videos I posted here and more importantly… change is good I think I want to get away from “wood” looking designs and more into “light” (meaning prism/laser) multi-colored ones as my stuff is focused mostly on lasers to begin with and rainbows are more colorful than oak The main WoodMarvels.com site is due for a major redesign as [...]

I just realized that I made a slight mistake in my naming conventions regarding my Onager series of siege weapons. I’ve research the topic in a little more detail and from what I can see, an Onager uses a sling approach with a hanging “sack” of stuff at the end of a long pole while the Mangonel uses a static rod that looks like a big spoon to project materials, so what I was really designing were Mangonels, not Onagers. [...]

I’m happy to announce the release of a far more powerful and stronger Onager Siege Weapon, version B! After I completed work on the first version of my Onager, I immediately wanted to make one that was more capable in every way, from customizing the power of the catapult for the material about to be thrown to the general look being far more rugged. Oddly enough, now that I’ve made two of these, I have even more ideas on how [...]