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About a week ago, I got a testimonial from Stephane who completed our free Mobile Crane and now he has sent me one for the Full Armor Gear Transporter! What’s even cooler is that he created a really attractive and neat pincer for the Mobile Crane which you can see in the pictures as well (more on that later). Here’s the testimonial!
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Hi Jon,
The crane (another of the first) will be modified with a self made design of pincer (10 pieces [...]

I got a testimonial from Matthew who ordered both the WoodMarvels.com free Medieval Castle Walls and the EPS file for the Medieval Castle Walls B – using both he created a model that was made uniquely for his child. Below are the pictures and testimonial. This testimonial made me especially proud because a child had a very unique toy built by his father using designs I made… which meant a lot!
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(I blurred the kid’s faces in the pictures)
Hi Jon,
Well the [...]

If you look a little on the WoodMarvels.com, you will find that there are a few PDF blueprints that are free – not just my first version of my Medieval Castle Walls.
I got an order about a week ago from Stephane which included one such free model, the first version of my Mobile Crane and Stephane was kind enough to send me pictures of the completed model along with a great testimonial of how it went.
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Sorry for my English… I [...]

Here’s is a testimonial regarding a physical laser cut kit ordered just before Christmas:
I have finished making the straddle carrier – it was great fun and went very well. As your website says it assembles pretty easily and the finished product is amazing considering it comes out of one piece of plywood. I am very impressed with the concept. I will show it to a few people and see if I can come up with some more orders [...]

I just found a picture of our wooden Brontosaurus looking out from the Ponoko head office in New Zealand! I wonder what it’s thinking? I’ll tell you in a few weeks time…

Brontosaurus Assembly Animation
You can find this brontosaur and many other dinosaurs at WoodMarvels.com under Theme / Pre-Historic / Dinosaurs.

Buzvia: http://img36.yfrog.com/i/r1om.jpg/, Ponoko.com

HomeWorkshop.com picked their favorite designs among the thousands found on Ponoko and decided our serving table was worthy of recognition. Here’s the animation.

Read the blog article by HomeWorkshop.com

It only took a few days but our personalized plaque featuring a hammer and stake have now been officially Nerd Approved! I guess we can add “bizarre wood creation” to the list of how people describe WoodMarvels.com’s products Nice compliment… more weird and wacky stuff coming soon!
Read full article here.

According to TubeMogul, the 3D animations produced by WoodMarvels.com to showcase the assembly of our products has reached 168 847!
Here is the breakdown:

Vimeo = 613
Yahoo = 473
Imeem = 2
MySpace = 641
Viddler = 3 540
DailyMotion = 3 669
Veoh = 30 863
Stupid Videos = 44
Metacafe = 60 917
Crackle = 4 149
YouTube = 24 004
AOL Video = 605
Yahoo = 1 513
Revver = 37 814

What is even more astonishing is that Blip.tv and a host of other video sharing sites aren’t even included in [...]

I just saw a screencast from Magento, our e-commerce platform, that finally, downloadable products are going to be possible! This is fantastic news as it means you no can get access to your PDFs immediately once the payment is processed by Paypal instead of having to wait for us to manually e-mail it to you! This update also seems to offer storage of previously purchased PDFs, which would be a great feature for our customers. This also opens-up many other [...]

Posting a quick message that WoodWerks.com has now been reviewed by our sister company, Buzvia.com. Here is the link… if you are in to woodcrafts… you got to check this site out!
http://buzvia.com/MBVKN