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

    More Puzzle Box Fun

    Yesterday I went down a huge puzzle box rabbit hole after I was done working. I watched a ton of videos about how to make simple boxes, and people opening more complex boxes. They’re fascinating to me because of the intricacy and complexity. I’m thinking this weekend I’d like to try to make a small box with a secret compartment. It should be a good introduction into the world of puzzle box making and I’ve already drafted an idea for a more complicated puzzle box.

    Puzzle boxes are interesting to me at this point in my life because they’ve got a lot of depth in terms of story and craftsmanship. Many of the boxes I viewed yesterday had a specific story attached to them. Whether it was killing a jaguar with a spear or trying to find lost gold in the wild west, the boxes took you on a journey and that’s what’s fascinating to me right now.

    I’ll most likely start small and research different mechanisms and work primarily on the mechanisms at first. The CNC will be a very useful tool but I’ve got to figure out how best to do small eighth inch or quarter inch sheet material. I’m thinking I do a sacrificial 12″x12″ piece of MDF and plane it down in the planer when it gets all gnarled up. It’s tricky because I’d like to cut all the way through the sheet goods to avoid having to use the band saw and router. Using those tools will add extra time and effort to the projects. The problem with cutting all the way through is that it is hard on the router bits, especially if I’m using double sided tape to fasten the sheet material down.

    I’ll have to experiment with different sheet goods. Quarter inch sheet material might be large enough to use the flush router with. I’d like to be able to do more intricate, smaller parts but the CNC is sort of a large machine, so work holding is definitely a challenge at the moment. I’d prefer not to ruin bits by constantly cutting all the way through the workpiece and into the tape. I could do a CA glue and scotch tape situation, which probably wouldn’t ruin the bits as fast.

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