Noah B Woodworks

My beautiful, sweet, adorable toddler has given me her head cold so todays post might be a little shorter than normal. It might be a good weekend to try and knock out the ice fishing rod case. I haven’t come across any videos of anyone trying this so I’m interested to see what I come across when researching ideas. I most likely wont be going ice fishing this weekend because I don’t want to make my cough worse than it already is. It all depends how I’m feeling on Saturday but this cold seems like its going to be a slow burn. Not particularly intense, just annoying and not showing any signs of going anywhere.

I’m able to be just productive enough to maybe work out in the shop or at least get a plan put together for how I’m going to build this ice rod case. I need to determine how much wood will be necessary, it would be great if I could make these from solid chunks of wood, instead of having to glue the panels together from smaller pieces. Although it might make the resawing of the timber easier if I cut them int o smaller width strips. I’m assuming I’ll be needing to resaw my 5-quarter pieces of cherry into 1/2 inch thick strips in order to not waste an absolute ton of wood.

I could just spend like $80 and have this problem be solved by purchasing a rod case, but something about building a custom one sounds intriguing. We’ll see how far I get this weekend, and luckily the ice isn’t going anywhere for a while. I’m planning to cover whatever case that I conjure up in epoxy so it’ll be relatively water proof.