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

    2026 Is Here

    It’s the new year and 2026 should be a good one. None of my plans are changing, but my wife is going back to school to get certified to teach middle school in Michigan, and will hopefully start in the fall of this year. That’ll be great for her, and she should have a long career in education. Over the new years break she got extremely sick with the flu, so I was on daddy/house duty for the majority of my break. I was able to do a little shop work in the mornings though, and yesterday I went ice fishing for the first time ever, which was so fun.

    I mostly wanted to get the shop back in order after all of the miscellaneous projects that I did for Christmas. The shop was a complete mess and a bunch of my stuff did not really have a home. A lot of miscellaneous gear was sitting out on the workbenches because I disassembled a rolling table to free up more floor space. I was thinking about making a bunch of cabinets with drawers, but didn’t want to spring for the sheet good materials. I ended up just finding homes for things, and rearranging some objects around. It cleaned up just fine for now and we’re good to go for 2026.

    I added lighting to the corner of the shop that houses the CNC and built an arm from the ceiling that the GoPro can mount onto. Speaking of camera gear, my wife is not the biggest fan of the noise that the 3D printer makes, so I was unable to print the Canon M50’s new housing while she was sick. I’ve re designed the housing in Fusion and it will only take around 9 hours to print the entire thing, which is great because before it was closer to 17 hours. Anyway, I mounted the GoPro above the CNC so I can take timelapses of the CNC working, which is great for social media. I made a few epoxy works just to test out the camera setup and video editing workflow. I can record on the GoPro, transfer the media to my phone, cut the video with the edits app, and post to Instagram. This should be an effective way to generate some media this year.

    I recently had an idea to make a box using a tessellated epoxy pattern. The process is: cut the tessellated pattern on the CNC with the edges of the pattern cut where the pattern repeats, fill the pattern with epoxy, sand or CNC the epoxy back flush, cut four of the rectangular tessellated pieces out with the CNC, use the new miter table saw jig to miter the edges of the tessellated pattern into a box (the tessellation should continue through the mitered joints) and then do rabbeted lid and bottom. Once the six sides of the box are made, I can use the table saw, or a hand saw to cut the box open, then mount some lid hardware into the two pieces. This should make for a cool little video, and I can make a lot of these boxes because there are a bunch of different tessellation/wrap around patterns out there.

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