WoodMarvels Blog

Considering the first two weeks of the New Year were a write-off due to my fried laptop fan (meaning I had no computer till it was fixed), I still got quite a bit done! Overall, WoodMarvels.com grew very well in 2011. January 2012 Happenings! I was interviewed for an Indonesian laser crafting blog and Fab Lab Tulsa also added WoodMarvels.com as a resource. I released a bunch of new CNC projects, all found under Collaborations / ShopBot Tools (CNC) such [...]

Each month, I do a review of the previous one and now that 2011 is behind us, here is a review of where things are now vs a year ago. If you are interested, you can skip through the monthly reviews for January, February, March, April, May, June/July, August, September, October/November and December of this year. You can also read the reviews for 2010 and 2009. What my goals were for WoodMarvels.com 2011 Release at least a few models in [...]

December flew by, I moved (yet again), this time to Northern Ontario into a remote city of about 100 people but as long as I had internet, I was fine running things as normal. WoodMarvels.com had a flood of activity as usual so here is a summary of what happened during the month of December. I’ll be doing a “year in review” in a few days so you can see how far WoodMarvels.com has come over the past year and [...]

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 [...]

September was like most other months around here, more new projects, new designers and… well… OUR BEST SALES MONTH ON RECORD! WoodMarvels.com is now averaging over 100K video views A MONTH as well! I feel like I’m on a rocket ship – rather apt as I designed and released on in September too! So, what happened at WoodMarvels.com over the past month? Richie showed off his laser cut Ferris Wheel B I wrote a bit about how I see WoodMarvel.com [...]

This month flew by as did the last, the focus was on getting the third volume of the book ready for launch. I have one final review of the physical book proof next week then all should be ready to go (crossing fingers). I then have the enviable task of updating all the PDF files across WoodMarvels.com as well as designs that were showcased in the book. So, what happened at WoodMarvels.com over the past month? Apple has the iPad, [...]

Yeah, I skipped a month… just so much happening behind the scenes it’s rather incredible I got through it. Traditionally our peak season for sales starts in Mid-August so I had to lay the groundwork and gets lots of things updated to prepare for the upcoming worldwide onslaught! It doesn’t feel like two months have passed… more like a few weeks! So, what happened at WoodMarvels.com over the past two months? I launched ShopMarvels.com which is an online directory and [...]

This month flew by at an incredible pace… already June 1st and so many cool things happened! One of the biggest things to happen for the site is the 1 000 000 video views milestone. It will be interesting to see how long it takes to hit 2 000 000 total video views! So, what happened at WoodMarvels.com over the past month of May? Got some great new designs out the door including ZeusCannon’s Bulldozer Lamp, my Physics Trophy, Had [...]

The WoodMarvels.com brand keeps growing on a global basis…. from international sales to designers sending me some impressive work! Consider this, the past four month of sales are equivalent to 75% of all of 2010 sales on the site and this is normally a dead time sales wise! So, what happened at WoodMarvels.com over the past month of April? I designed and released some new models including: Easter Island Secret Storage Head Bookend, Spring Basket and Rusk Straf Dual-Ramjet Stealth [...]

March blew by at great speed… April already! Wow! I designed a few new things that will see the light of day in April but until then, I launched a few other projects in March. Things are usually dead sales wise this time of year but oddly enough, this year, things are just going up with international sales picking-up steam! So, what happened at WoodMarvels.com over the past month of March? Tom joined the ranks of WoodMarvels.com designers selling their [...]