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I wrote an article a while back for Ponoko regarding my design process and it has now made it on two of their top ten lists! Cool! Ten Helpful Tutorials and Guides See me under #4 Top Ten Projects + Maker Stories See me under #3 Both articles point to the main article http://blog.ponoko.com/2010/11/19/a-marvellous-process/ A very special thanks to Stephane, I used his design to show this process… he made an amazing tractor which taught me A LOT about design. [...]

Since I first started WoodMarvels.com, I’ve wanted to build a big wooden medieval castle but never really got around to it until Trotec Austria asked me if I could design something for them for the upcoming International Toy Fair in Nurnberg, Germany. This is a HUGE toy fair and I jumped at the opportunity to not only have one of my most complex creations cut and presented at the show, but to have such a great company using this design [...]

I little while ago, I got some pictures from David of the Model T he cut on one of his laser cutting machines. Looks great, here are some of the pictures of the completed woodworking project! You can get your own WoodMarvels.com Model T Runabout under Category / Vehilcles / Cars at our main site. It’s available in DXF, EPS, PDF and laser cut kit form.

If you have some brochures or pamphlets to handout to clients, David Newman’s newest project will be invaluable. He even uses this design for his own business so you should as well! You can find the DXF, EPS and PDF files for this model under Collaborations / David Newman at WoodMarvels.com. Display Stand: 3D Assembly Animation (720HD)

Something interesting happened over the holidays now that “refund season” is in. I got lots of digital file orders, a record actually from all four corners of the map. Great! The problem is, several consumers with no knowledge of wood or laser/cnc machines much less manufacturing were ordering PDF Guides and expecting a physical kit to be shipped to them for the holidays are complaining! The Problem For example, a customer would order a Zulu Main Battle Tank with almost [...]

I had been wanting to design a wooden flying car for quite a while, if only because I never saw one EVER attempted so I’d figure to give it a try. The project took me about a week on/off and as you can see, not much about the design changed once the main features were decided. What I’m really starting to appreciate is how little I really have done in the space of laser cut or cnc router designed wooden [...]

You can see WoodMarvels.com under #8… good read of some cool stuff out there. Ten Awesome DIY & Digitally Fabricated Toys

This project came to light from a customer request I got just before the holiday period – hoping to get some pictures of its new customer soon! A shopping cart, for a guy who hates shopping, is just about the last thing I ever though I’d design but this was an interesting break from the other stuff I got in the works. Fun project, quick to build and easy to assemble! This WoodMarvels.com shopping cart is available right now in [...]

WoodMarvels.com 2010: The year that was amazing! I really believe that it’s important to set a number of goals for a company as well as your personal life in order to not only track progress but to set new milestones for new levels of achievement. I’ve luckily blogged about WoodMarvels.com from the very beginning and thanks to this good habit, I can easily track how things have evolved over time. Looking back at where WoodMarvels.com was at the end of [...]

The past year was amazing, so many new products, developments and happenings that I’ll blog about them in a few days once the dust settle down here. Working on updating the studio I film my HowToChinese.com videos from… I really need to update the current green-screen set-up we are using to be much bigger and a screen… not just pieces of green paper glued to the wall! In the meantime, Ponoko blogged about their top 10 Showroom list and I [...]