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

    Weekend Shenanigans

    I’ve definitely been in a funk this week. Getting back to work from a short vacation last week has me feeling down. It was way worse yesterday, and I’m hoping that next week will be better. You can tell by the length of a blog post how much I’m feeling like taking on the weight of the day. When the new year comes around, it’s strange because in the grand scheme of things nothing has changed, yet our society is hell-bent on renewal and rebirth. I don’t feel like anything has changed, and it’s just a normal week for me, which is adding to the strangeness I’ve been experiencing.

    I’m definitely looking forward to the weekend, and today is my Friday, even though it’s Thursday. My brother called yesterday and it looks like we’re going to an ice fishing expo tonight in the late afternoon. I was planning on going ice fishing tomorrow morning, but the weather is going to be crazy warm. It’s going to be 50 degrees and raining, so I may need to pivot my plans. I’m sort thinking I may go on Saturday morning, and woodwork on Friday. Friday seems like a good day for woodworking.

    The goal for this weekend is to make the tessellation box, and film it for YouTube. I’m very excited for this project, as it should look really sweet. I’ll do the CNC work on Friday, then fill the voids with epoxy. If Saturday is a bust for ice fishing, I’ll sand the epoxy away, cut and glue the box together. Then Sunday after I work I’ll finalize the box. I’ll edit the video next week and hope to upload midweek to Youtube.

    I’m getting very close to finishing the camera housing. The battery and camera are mostly done, but the monitor housing is giving me some trouble. I made it beefier and thickened the walls. It is still a tight fit and I’ve got to make holes for the connectors on the side. After the next print or two it should be a done deal. Hopefully I can use the new camera rig to film the tessellation box. It’s slowly coming together.

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