Thanks to my involvement in the 3D printing world, I discovered how little I know and have yet to learn! I was looking for a way to gain knowledge from professionals in the field and it lead me down the...
I've been very busy on several fronts as of late including getting ShopMarvels.com up and running. I've tried twice before to get some sort of forum running on WoodMarvels.com in various fashions and they all failed so consider this my...
It's taken far longer than I would have liked but I'm finally undergoing the slow process of launching all my models on WoodMarvels.com to be 3D printed, with files available on 3DMarvels.com! The first model of which is the Ford...
This month flew by at an incredible pace... already June 1st and so many cool things happened! One of the biggest things to happen for the site is the 1 000 000 video views milestone. It will be interesting to...
I'm in between several consecutive projects for other people at the moment so decided to take a breather and design my own thing again - this time tackle laser engraving! Challenge #1: Interlocking Parts Though I've been designing now for...
As WoodMarvels.com keeps growing in offerings, streamlining the site becomes all the more difficult but essential towards the continued success of the site. Along that stream of thought, I've created a new category called "Shop Essentials" which I hope to...
I'm very happy that I taught myself 3D modeling and animation over a decade ago, I'm by far not the best out there but what I have learned has been invaluable to my current businesses. I think having a background...
If you attended the Bay Area Maker Faire over the past few days and visited the Ponoko booth, you saw some WoodMarvels.com models there. You can see more pictures of the Ponoko booth at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ponoko Thanks Ponoko! A very special...
I've completed the update of the backend powering WoodMarvels.com and many customers got subscription / canceled subscription notices by mistake... just ignore it. The newsletter system was broken among a few other items that were causing some site wide issues...
This has been a very long time coming but I've decided to launch Commercial Production Licenses on WoodMarvels.com after several long discussions with shop owners around the world. This Commercial Production License would entitle a shop owner to buy the...