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

    Update to the Ice Rod Holder

    I’ve been crazy busy with work related tasks and my supervisor may be leaving the company, so the amount of work I’ll end up doing at work could be increasing here over the coming months. I haven’t really been doing much making lately. I’ve been doing a lot of daydreaming about owning a homestead and trying to pull that effort together. I’d love to buy some land to build things on, sort of a family retreat a couple hours north that we can go to when we feel like getting away from everything. It could possibly double as a deer camp as well.

    I was out ice fishing with my brother last weekend and we were talking about the ice rod holders. In the old design, the holder came as one piece and so it was an extremely awkward shape to pack in and out of the 5 gallon bucket. It’d be hard to pack more than one into any container. It was a total space hog. Now the holder breaks down into two pieces and screws together at the base. This way the base can stack flat, and the holder can fall into any open voids in any container easily.

    I wasn’t going to put the effort in to redesign these little holders, but they’re so useful. My brother was telling me that his friend, Chris, was interested in getting one. I took it as a good sign that there was even a smidgen of demand for this product and now I’ve got it on Facebook marketplace to gauge the demand even more. I could also attempt to try to sell the .STL files so folks can print these at home. I should also mention that I made the actual holder diameter larger by around 10mm. My Mags rod was getting stuck because the castration bands that hold the reel on protrude out sort of far and made getting the rod in and out of the holder really awkward.

    Its sort of a shame, because we’re coming into the last couple of weekends of the ice fishing season for my region so I’m sure the interest/demand for a product like this is seasonal. I’d be wise to try again next fall and see how it does with better timing. I’ve attached some pictures of the old holder, and the new design that screws together at the base.

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