WoodMarvels Blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Now that my computer is back up and running, I’m able to release a backlog of projects! The Parasaurolophus CNC is a CNC router optimized, upscaled version of the laser version available on WoodMarvels.com. The original Parasaurolophus was my 37th laser model, and now my 8th CNC… things have changed a lot since then but this model is even stronger than the original! If you have a ShopBot or any other CNC router, you really want to give this easy [...]

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 [...]

About two weeks ago, my laptop’s fan fried so I had to send it to HP to get fixed, now that I got my laptop back I’m  hoping to get caught-up within the next few days and start releasing more stuff very soon!

I got some great looking pictures of the CNC version of the WoodMarvels.com Ford Model T. Richard did a great job assembling this model, looks great!

It’s taken 400 videos over the past few years but my YouTube.com account now has a total lifetime view count of 1,003,921! (front end stats lag behind backend ones apparently) What makes this interesting is that I can pretty easily date the videos based on the imagery shown… the worse it is, the older the video! No music = ancient first batch of videos ever used on WoodMarvels.com. So… here are the top 10 most viewed videos from across my [...]

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 [...]

A long while back, I made a series of bird feeders and houses, well, now you can get those files in DXF file and not only EPS and PDF format. Easiest way to find them is to go to WoodMarvels.com / Shop By Theme / Great Outdoors I’m due for a new series of bird related items for Spring!