Noah B Woodworks

Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances I was unable to progress the tessellated box project. It should be fairly straightforward from here though and I’ll post pictures and a link to the video once it’s completed. I just need to go slow and take my time with the miters, making sure that they’re perfect. the whole concept will look bad if the miters aren’t done well. The tessellations are supposed to wrap through the miters, which is the whole gimmick behind what makes this box unique.

Once the miters are glued, I’m debating how to do the top and bottom. I know I’d like to do a rabbeted plate where the sides of the rabbet show outside of the box, but I’m debating whether I’d like to do them on the CNC or cut the rabbets with a router. The CNC would be more precise, but possibly take longer to program and set up. Sometimes cutting rabbets with the router leaves the rabbets cut poorly at the beginning/end of the cut. We’ll see but I’m thinking I’ll be doing them on the CNC.

I was able to do something yesterday though. I ran a massive 14 hour 3D print. It’s a small carrying case for my ice fishing fish finder. I’ve got a Garmin Striker 4 and it came with a kayak that I bought last summer. The transducer is integrated/glued into the kayak, so using I didn’t want to remove it just to ice fish for a few months. I bit the bullet and purchased the ice fishing transducer, that has a flotation ring around the wire and designed a little carrying case that is similar to the Vexilar flasher Genz case.

Here’s a picture of the 3D model. Doing this saved almost $300 over a different fish finder and $150 on the Garmin Striker 4 ice fishing bundle. Figured it’ll be handy to have out on the ice for years to come. There may also be opportunities to sell this in the future. The Garmin Striker 4 is very common, and most budget friendly FF out there. So we’ll see if people like this setup.