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 [...]

With the laser end of WoodMarvels.com, for the past 3 years, I’ve been fine offering DXF and EPS file formats for machines the world over but with CNC, things are a little more complicated so I’ve added to the file formats of DXF and PartWorks zip files the new formats of Adobe Illustrator and EPS which should over all the CNC bases. You now get twice the number of files for the same price! If you already bought a CNC [...]

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)

I sometimes have issues with people buying EPS or DXF files but the machine software they use to cut the model with doesn’t accept the format they bought. Another common issue is having a different board size than the one I’ve optimized the EPS to… to solve both problems, I’ve decided to (very slowly) start combining EPS/DXF files available on the site. Before, you had to buy both separately, the EPS had all double lines removed while the DXF had [...]

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 [...]

I got a few hits the other day from a new source when reviewing my stats and in this case, it was Fab Lab Tulsa that decided to add WoodMarvels.com as a resource for woodworking projects. Cool! http://www.fablabtulsa.com/the-lab/documents