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 some amazing [...]

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 [...]

Here is how I would see the typical Chinese citizen living their life in the year 2140. Why Chinese? Because China WILL lead the environmental crusade through this century. They have the brain power (population x education x competition), the will and importantly, don’t live in a democratic country… these billions of people will be pushed into changing their lifestyle fundamentally with little choice but to comply or face severe consequences.
7am: Zhi Wen wakes-up to a flowing symphony of environmental [...]

I believe that things will get far worse environmentally before they get better, I also believe that we are but on the fine cusp of a HUGE fundamental shift in how the glocal economies of this world operate… and desktop on-demand manufacturing is a vital piece towards solving the global warming puzzle.
What is desktop on-demand manufacturing?
Change this question to “what is a desktop printer” to get an idea of how much of a revolution on-demand desktop manufacturing will become and [...]

We have just launched our laser cut dolphin kit available in two sizes, 6mm and 10mm. The nice thing about the 10mm kit is you get two with that order! You can find it on WoodMarvels.com under Theme / Sea Life and the approximate dimension of the 6mm kit are 16cm long, 10cm high and with a width of 3cm while for the 10mm kit, 27cm long, 7cm high and with a width of 5cm.

We have also released a smaller [...]

We have released two sets of coaster or surface protectors on our site. They are based off the ones we produced blueprints for about a year ago but these are only one layer thick, meaning no need for dowels and are easily cut.
Each set includes matching 24cm, 18cm and 4 x 10cm surface protectors. You can find these coasters (more to come) on WoodMarvels.com under Category / Kitchen.
We have also launched a new Amazing Mega Train which is our largest [...]

We have just released our 10mm laser-cut humpback whale kit on our WoodMarvels.com site. We are hoping to add tremendously to our “mammals” section in the very near future once we are all caught-up with our innovative square dowel system but until then, a refresh of just about all our models is the main focus.

We also decided to remove all Google Adsense advertising from our main WoodMarvels.com site, not because the conversion wasn’t good but because we are working so [...]

We have now released our submarine, one of our earlier models, as a laser-cut kit available now at our site using 10mm thick Eurolite plywood. Approximate dimensions are 30cm long, 12cm high with a fin span of 10cm and the wheels are 6mm thick.
You can find this amazing WoodMarvels.com product by navigating to Theme / Weapons of Mass Fun.

You may have noticed that we have changed the naming of our kits at this time as well, no longer are they [...]

We have completed the entire transition of our Dinosaur Collection to be a complete, self-contained, laser cut on-demand kit! Be sure to order yours right now because there will be a significant delay in on-demand production once the orders come flooding in!
> Laser-Cut Kits (4mm)
Aproximate sizes on material thickness of 4mm:
Brontosaurus:17cm long, 11cm high and with a width of 2.6cm
Centrosaurus: 15cm long, 5.5cm high and with a width of 2.5cm
Pterodactyl: 18cm long, 5cm high and with a wingspan of 11.5cm
Parasaurolophus: [...]

Woodmarvels.com has now released the final piece of our dinosaur collection, the parasaurolophus! Like the other wood marvels, this one is available both laser-cut and as blueprints if you want to build your very own!
> Laser-Cut Kits (4mm)
Approximate dimensions: 17.5cm long, 7.5cm high and with a width of 2.6cm. Material thickness is 4mm.
> Laser-Cut Kits (6mm)
Approximate dimensions: 26.5cm long, 11.5cm high and with a width of 4cm. Material thickness is 6mm. You get twins with this order.
> Laser-Cut Kits (10mm)
Approximate [...]