Noah B Woodworks

It brings me a great deal of happiness to make woodworking projects for friends and family. The weekend after next I’ve got a boys weekend celebrating the wedding of one of my best friends. We’re going to Chicago to watch Michigan beat Northwestern at Wrigley Field. Strange because Wrigley is a baseball field. I’m looking forward to it very much so this coming weekend I figured I’d try to make something for everyone.

I’m making my buddy, Mike, that got married a 3 watch display stand with a contrasting engraved wood plate. The plate will have his name engraved on it and be embellished in some sort of interesting way. I’m going to be spending the most amount of time on this little project. I’m planning on making a small lidded, magnetic box for his wife Loretta with her new name engraved on it. Mikes brother, Chris, just helped welcome his first child into the world, so I will be making some sort of toy for her. I’m thinking about getting him a toothbrush too as a gag gift because he used to be obsessive about cleaning his shoes. Our friend, Luke, had twins a few years back, so I’ll be making a set of toys for them as well. I’m thinking a small ball bearing maze puzzle with their names engraved on it.

For the rest of my degenerate buddies I’ll be giving them white oak whiskey smokers. I already made a batch; I have 10-15 of them made up so that should be easy. Another one of my best friends, Alex, who just split from a long time relationship is going, so this boys weekend will be an excellent distraction for him. I’m thinking I’ll make a fridge, or wall mounted bottle opener for him with some sort of engraved mountain biking scene. The bottle opener will have a magnet to catch the bottle tops as they fall. The engraving will probably have to be simple, so it doesn’t take a ton of time. He’s huge into mountain biking and beer, so a biking themed bottle opener will be pretty sweet.