Noah B Woodworks

I didn’t post yesterday because I felt like there wasn’t much to say. I haven’t been doing much woodworking lately and I’ve been feeling sort of stuck in life. I’d love to do my music work and woodworking full time, but I’m also a full time dad and employee, so I’m experiencing the struggle of basically everyone else in the world right now. I suppose that in itself is comforting. I’ll have a little time today to do some sort of work while our preschooler is at preschool.

I need to fix the stool that I made a few months ago. The dryness of the season got to it and the figured walnut on the seat has split apart. I’ll most likely try to plane it flat and the router the whole crack out of the seat. I’ll replace the routed section with a strip of cherry or walnut depending on how flashy I’d like to be. I believe that is next on the to-do list.

Once we get our next big warm up I need to do a couple of things. I need a haircut, I need to figure out a roof rack for the kayaks, and then I need to finish the speaker boxes for my brother. I learned my lesson last winter trying to do big glue ups when it was too cold. I need to be patient and allow the weather to get warm enough to do the big glue ups I’ve got planned. I’d also like to continue the puzzle box work I was doing a few months ago, or at least make a bunch more boxes this year. I’d like to get a system down for creating very high quality, hand made boxes. I liked the idea of puzzle boxes because it’s an opportunity to tell stories and combine 3D printing, CNC and woodworking all in one small package.