Noah B Woodworks

A woodworking page for the free time foot soldier

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Hello there! My name is Noah Budd and I am a woodworker from southeast Michigan. I hail from a small set of towns in the Upper Peninsula called Houghton/Hancock. I lived there for 24 of my 31 years, and graduated from Michigan Tech in 2019 in audio production.

In my free time I am a dad first and hobbyist second. I make music, read books, smoke pipes, and kayak fish. I am a broadcast engineer in my professional life, working an early morning 3:30 – 11:30 am shift. The early bird has most definitely gotten a worm or two.

Thanks for stopping by my site and feel free to reach out to me on Instagram @noahbwoodworks or via the email found on the contact page

-Noah

    On My Shave Horse

    Last year I built a small shave horse. I sort of made my own design. It is small, and sturdy but has quite a few limitations. It does the job but not perfectly and I suppose that is okay. I made it to take up less floor space than a larger one because I work out of a 20 foot by 20 foot barn. As a result of bad priorities, the shave horse sits outside and I use it little, especially in the winter which is coming.

    As I am writing about my barn and its limited floor space, I can’t help but think there might be a better way. Perhaps I build a big console with heavy duty casters on the base. Basically a home for every large tool in the shop. The table saw takes up the most space. For that, I need a table to catch the work I push through, and side to side space for the fence which can go up to a few feet. Next is the miter saw, which has its own resting place on the side wall of the barn. If I could squeeze those two tools together I’d free up some space. Even more so, if I could squeeze my planer into this equation that would be even better. Is it too much to ask for the jointer and router table too?

    I’m envisioning a huge rectangle in the center of the barn. 10 feet by 6 feet. Into a corner of this rectangle, I build the table saw so that I can push work through and use the whole fence. Then, perhaps in the corners, I build surfaces that flip to hide the larger tools like my lunchbox planer, jointer, and miter saw. These tables that rotate 180 degrees will have to be quite sturdy as the miter saw and planer are very heavy instruments. It would be worth it though, to free up space for a sturdier, longer and more adjustable shave horse.

    I originally built the shave horse to shave legs and spindles on chairs, but recently I have been making wands. Wands are basically fancy chair spindles. I can turn wand blanks out with great speed on the shave horse, and it has to be the most fun woodworking activity in existence. There is something so fun about using a decent quality spoke shave to make a spindle or wand blank. I could sit there all day.

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