WoodMarvels Blog

I know the site has been having issues for the past week and still currently – no worries, we are on top of it and will get it fixed in the next few days. I’ll post an update when everything is back to 100%. The reason for these issues is we are updating our e-commerce system, it isn’t fun but necessary to allow for continued growth well into the future. Thanks for your patience! Jon Founder of WoodMarvels.com

I got my amazing ShopBot Desktop from ShopBot Tools six months ago and since then, have put the machine through its paces. Here is a review of how things have gone so far. 30+ models tested and (almost) released! Over the past 6 months, I’ve cut over 30 models and almost released an equal amount here on WoodMarvels.com  – considering I’ve never touched a CNC machine beforehand nor knew how to film with a camera (skill I’m still learning through [...]

I thought not much happened in April but I was wrong looking back – which is why it’s important to review things monthly! I got a 3D industrial animation project so my rendering queue for WoodMarvels.com was put on hold until it was done so I now have a even larger glut of CNC projects waiting the time of day! April 2012 Happenings! WoodMarvels.com was featured on ShopoBot Tools website! Baidu (Chinese equivalent to Google) lists WoodMarvels.com #1 under laser [...]

This project is really a month “old” but I got a few cool 3D Industrial Animations so I had to put the work on hold while those rendered… hence the delay. Regardless, you can now get your very own massive Straddle Carrier CNC project right now at WoodMarvels.comunder the ShopBot Tools CNC heading. I’ve started doing a few changes to the way the assembly video works and the model in general… you’ll notice for the assembly video below that I’ve [...]

Every once in a while, I get a complaint from a potential customer who can’t understand why they are unable to buy a digital file from WoodMarvels.com once for say 7.95$ and cut unlimited amount to sell in the back of their van or in local shops. I do sell commercial production licenses with wholesale discounts so it’s even less! To them, giving even a fraction of their income to support the designer (it’s not just me on WoodMarvels.com btw) [...]

Here is a render of the finished and tested of the upcoming Straddle Carrier B CNC project… depending on 3D animation rendering and live video production that accompany each of our CNC router projects, it should be launched around the end of the week – this CNC project measures roughly 30cm high, 25cm wide and 32cm long! As you can see from the render – the container can hover without string (at least virtually)!  

Two months ago somebody asked the Spanish version of Yahoo Answers where they could find wooden dinosaur models for their classroom and the answer came-up with WoodMarvels.com! http://mx.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120211132604AAhbfDc That’s pretty neat considering the site is in English… a few days ago even Baidu send traffic my way and my site isn’t even in Chinese yet! Got some Chinese orders and maybe even a Commercial Production License on the way there as a result too. Anyways, hoping to have all three [...]

I got a string of visitors and inquiries from China over the past few days – international companies there bypass the Chinese filters by using a VPN (as I did when I lived there) and guess what… if you search on Baidu.com – China’s largest and most popular search engine – for “laser project” you end-up with WoodMarvels.com as the #1 listing! http://www.baidu.com/s?wd=laser%20project&pn=70&tn=sitehao123&usm=1&rsv_page=1 I did the same search on Google but I don’t show-up on the first page sadly… I [...]

I visited ShopBot Tools and got a ShopBot Desktop almost 6 months ago and since then, have cut more than 30 models with it (each one 2-3x for prototyping)… it’s a great machine and now I’m on their homepage (below) and here is a direct link to the page the testimonial links to… I guess now you know what I look like minus the beard and long hair!

I have many goals this year for WoodMarvels.com and among the more ambitious ones is translating all my books into Chinese as well as the website. The reasons for this include: YouTube.com doesn’t work in China so all videos will have to be “doubled” meaning you see both the YouTube.com video and Youku.com (or Toudou.com)… I knew this was coming so I’ve been uploading to both sites for some time now. Online translation systems do a POOR job translating, just [...]