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There is something really attractive – especially to woodworkers – about the Medieval Era. It’s a time when engineering relied completely on trial and error, the materials at hand were very basic (leather, wood, iron etc.) and it was all about scaling upwards. Huge stone Medieval Castles, huge wooden siege weapons and war seemed as ordinary then as reading the daily paper online is today. It was a crazy time! I wasn’t nor am I currently immune to this idealization [...]

David Newman has a really cool MK3 Bobcat on WoodMarvels.com so I wanted to make it available as a CNC project. Here is the assembly animation to refresh your mind. MK3 Bobcat: 3D Assembly Animation (720HD) So with the new ShopBot Desktop, I converted the files over, make the t-bones and scaled it up… t-bones are needed because a round bit cannot make inner square parts and scaling it up allows the model to stay “mostly” intact quality wise even [...]

I was so busy last at the beginning of November that I didn’t get around to doing my monthly review of what happened here on WoodMarvels.com so here is the extended version. By far the biggest news over the past two months was acquisition of my new ShopBot Desktop designed and built by ShopBot Tools Inc. out of North Carolina. An amazing CNC by any measure! So, what happened at WoodMarvels.com over the past two months? New (and first) CNC [...]

I’ve now released a new CNC project on WoodMarvels.com – it’s a CNC version of our popular Ford Model T that fits perfectly on one 400mm x 500mm sheet of 6mm plywood (what I used) and you can find it under Collaborations / ShopBot Tools CNC on our website. Below is the video showing the cutting and assembly of the same model now available for sale in addition to the 3D assembly animation. ShopBot’ing a 1911 Ford Model T Torpedo [...]

If you own a laser cutter Down Under (Australia), be sure to checkout the latest The Cutting Edge november/december 2011 magazine – on page 21 you’ll see the Sydney Harbor Bridge I designed a while back for a Trotec show.