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

    Ice Season Coming to an End

    I spent nearly the entire weekend ice fishing, and the ice rod case did its job very well. I was very happy to be able to transport my rods safely and jam pack a bunch of gear on top of them. Snapping my fragile jigging rods was never a worry and so that in itself was worth the effort. The entry was melted on the first lake that I tried Friday morning, so I shifted to another nearby lake that ended up being pretty sweet. I was shooting for panfish, and I found a school of bluegill and pulled a few out of the water. Most of them were dinks, I might have caught one decent one.

    I set up the shanty and before long the winds were gusting the pop up walls in. I had never experienced this, and I actually discovered that I could have prevented this by staking the pop up walls down from the outside. I bought a fairly cheap clam insulated pop up on a really good sale at Bass Pro. I paid $350 for a $450 3-4 person insulated pop up shanty. What is annoying about the shanty is that it only came with 4 ice stakes when you really need 8. 4 for the inside and 4 for the outside on windy days. I don’t know why they only included 4 because on windy days this pop up is useless.

    On Saturday my brother and I went out to Union Lake to try to get an early morning walleye bite. I purchased some more ice stakes from the bait shop as we picked up our minnows. We ended up getting a bunch of rock bass and perch early and then got skunked going into the afternoon. It was a ton of fun and the shanty did awesome because I staked it down properly for gusty wind.

    As far as woodworking goes, the weather is getting warmer so it’ll be easier to glue and take on bigger projects. My primary focus will be on getting the rest of my brother Jack’s speaker system done. I’ll post pictures as that’s happening. I might try to start working on that again in early march. I’m still fishing obsessed so I’ll most likely be trying to do one day of fishing and one morning of woodworking a weekend. My preschooler is getting into preschool, so I’ll have a little more time to do focus on these hobbies later this year.

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