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

    Holiday Gifts

    Yesterday I finished the Christmas ornaments that I made for my co workers. They’re fun quippy Christmas gnomes with lettering underneath that have been filled with epoxy. I’ve attached a picture to this blog post. While making these I learned a little bit about my CNC. I was hoping to make these ornaments inlaid with wood instead of epoxy, but I was cutting into side grain, which shears the fibers more easily than cutting into the end grain. Also, if you’re going to inlay into side grain, you want to do it on bigger carves on the order of 9 inches by 9 inches or larger. I realized that inlaying wood into these small ornaments just wasn’t going to work so I pivoted and did them in epoxy.

    This weekend I’m thinking about just making something for my mom and dad and not my siblings. My wife and I purchased gifts for everyone already, but I could probably do something special for those two. I was thinking about making my mom and stepdad an embellished or logoed magnetic bottle opener that would hang on their fridge in their new house. My dad is a little more challenging because he’s a guy that needs for nothing. His birthday was yesterday and I asked him if he’s done anything special and he responded by saying it was just another average work day. Made me think I need to go over the top for him this Christmas.

    My dad really enjoys useful items, and as I’m writing this I’m realizing I have a small bench top CNC, practically the smallest and cheapest that you can purchase. It sits in my garage completely unused because I upgraded to a maker CNC last year. It is not the easiest tool to use but it is definitely a really good starting point and would fit into his space really well. Something for my dad to toy around with and improve upon. He’s the type to enjoy a challenge like that and almost always makes the best of something imperfect. It would be interesting to see what he’s able to make with it and if it is even something he would enjoy. I still need to make him something but regifting a hardly used bench top CNC is perhaps a good starting point.

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