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

    Getting Organized

    Last weekend I ran the CNC out in the shop for a while, and while it was running I spent a bunch of time rearranging and reorganizing my shop. I was able to build a little container at the base of my chair seat carving table for all of my old text books. This has 2 advantages: it contains the textbooks nicely out of the way and weighs down the table at the base. I’ve been looking for something to weight this table down and add mass to it, so the textbooks fit there perfectly.

    I realized I need to build a bunch of drawers and I would like to update my miter station to be a little more professional. The next miter station I am looking to make will have a countertop that is level with the miter saw’s cutting surface. There will also be a good amount of cabinets and perhaps better dust collection. Overall I am just looking to update things while the season is slow and cold. There are still some objects without homes, and an entire tool chest that has random objects slung into it. I purchased a small battery operated compressor, more batteries and a small 23 gauge pin nailer over the weekend. These tools should help immensely with the building of drawers. It’s one of those moments where if it’s worth doing it’s worth overdoing.

    I’ve been 3D printing hooks for the last two days. I’ve printed eight large hooks for my cable collection to hang on. That little project finished yesterday and it freed up a ton of space in the drawers of my office desk. The desk drawers still need some help in the organization department so I started printing gridfinity grids. Gridfinity is a storage system that you can 3D print where the grid is made of 42x42mm squares. Little containers nest onto these squares and it helps makers organize their things. My plan is to go bonkers with gridfinity and make as many grids as will fit into my life. My guess is I’ll probably spend at least 10-20 hours printing gridfinity this week and only get a few drawers done. It will be well worth it though to have my stuff put away nicely.

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