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I’ve always enjoyed the majestic grace of elephants, they seem to know who they are and don’t seem to care what other animals do around them. They are very proud and strong, and now you can get your very own CNC equivalent! You can find this now at WoodMarvels.com in PartWorks/DXF and PDF file formats right now. It’s made-up of 24 pieces with dimensions @ 6mm of L: 22cm, W: 12cm, H: 16.5cm cut on one 500mm x 400mm sheet [...]

You can now buy our updated Rhinoceros CNC model at WoodMarvels.com! This 25 piece model, if cut at 6mm, measures roughly 20cm long by 13cm high and has spinning wheels. You can find this model in Collaborations / ShopBot Tools (CNC) in DXF/PartWorks as well as PDF file formats. You can see the cutting and assembly videos, both animated and video, below. Rhinoceros CNC: Proof of Concept Rhinoceros CNC: 3D Assembly Animation (720HD)

Dirk designed this wonderful tray for laser and it was on the top of my list to try to convert to CNC… and now you can buy it as well at WoodMarvels.com under Collaborations / Dirk (or ShopBot Tools) for your very own workshop. This CNC project is 14 pieces in total and if you are using 6mm thick material,19cm square with a height of 6cm. The joints are pretty tight so you probably don’t even need glue either if [...]

David Newman made a really cool Attack Helicopter with this laser machine a while back and I always wanted to give an update to it, but this time, for CNC. What I especially liked about his Attack Helicopter was its removable missiles (of course, you can glue them in place if you wish) and the cool looking rotors he made for it. After getting a few CNC projects down, I decided to give an update to this model a go [...]

By far the largest model available at WoodMarvels.com under the ShopBot Tools Collaborations category, this huge CH-47 Chinook Helicopter CNC requires six sheets and is made-up of 49 pieces… and it’s 79cm from blade tip to blade tip! I decided to model this project to test out how the ShopBot Desktop performs over extended periods of time cutting sheet after sheet (this was in between other cutting projects) and after about 6 hours of continuous cutting and a worn-out bit… [...]

New day… new CNC router project launch! When I first got my ShopBot Desktop, I decided to focus on the simpler laser models, if there were issues, it’s easier to solve when you don’t have too many interlocking parts. This project came out great from the first cut so you can get it now too, it’s the Future Car B CNC. You can find this CNC model in DXF/PartWorks and PDF formats at WoodMarvels.com under Collaborations / ShopBot Tools. It’s [...]

The Pen and Pencil Holder B is a quick project that features a hidden guide system for easy assembly. Just slide one piece after the other, use clamps to hold things tight while the glue dried and you are done! You can get the files right now at WoodMarvels.com under Collaborations / ShopBot Tools in DXF/Partworks and PDF formats. Completed 19 piece model dimensions @ 6mm L: 13cm, W: 7cm, H: 9cm cut on one 500mm x 400mm sheet of [...]

Another day, another CNC router project from WoodMarvels.com! This time, it’s a very big and strong P-38 Lightning Aircraft featuring a very sturdy build, spinning rotors and pocketed emblems on the wing. It too me two tries to finalize this design on my ShopBot Desktop machine but once I got everything fitting perfectly using 6mm plywood, it was really amazing to hold such a large model in my hands! It has heft, sure, it won’t fly very far unless you [...]

The nice thing about running a mostly digital business is that everything you do is available to everybody else in the world as soon as it’s launched. I had a physical order kit a few months back from a customer in Indonesia… the traditional way to handle such an order is to get it cut at a major cutting hub or existing client with a laser shop along with associated transport and customs fees but then I got thinking. I [...]

I’ve completed the optimization of Jerry’s original helicopter which was made for laser cutters. This version is much larger, has more internal guides that help keep individual parts together and all this fits on two 400mm by 500mm 6mm sheets of plywood! Here are the videos below showing me cutting these models with my ShopBot Desktop and assembly afterwards. The files are available right now at WoodMarvels.com under Collaborations / ShopBot Tools. This is most likely the last model to [...]