Noah B Woodworks

A woodworking page for the free time foot soldier

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

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  • I ended up taking my Friday off to ice fish Lake St. Clair. I needed to return a buddy heater to the Bass Pro that was close by so I figured that Lake St. Clair would be a good look. When I got off work on Wednesday, I picked up a cheap set of antique…

  • I’ll most likely be dragging my feet getting another woodworking project started over the next few weeks. It’s still very cold, and there’s a ton of snow on the ground, so early morning woodworking is not the most appetizing of thoughts. Ice fishing on the other hand has completely taken control of my life. I…

  • The tessellated box is officially done. I completed the last step yesterday and I’ll start work on the YouTube video later today. I’ve attached some pictures. I’ve got a few ideas for the next one. I’d like to see if I can do a wood inlay for the tessellation. Instead of filling the female engraving…

  • I’m really dragging my feet finishing this tessellated box. I was very discouraged at my own craftsmanship in finishing those last couple of steps. Separating the lid from the base of the box, and installing the hinges was a clunky and cumbersome experience. The end result is okay, and it most definitely is a box.…

  • The blog posts for this week may be a little empty because I did not do very much woodworking last weekend. It was -15 degrees on Saturday, so my brother and I did a little ice fishing and hammered some of the smallest panfish you’d ever see. It was very fun. On Thursday I was…

  • Unfortunately there has not been much progress on the tessellated box project. I sanded the outsides to 400 grit, and routed the round over onto the box lid and base. Shortly after I started cutting the lid apart by hand but was interrupted by family shenanigans. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to get out…

  • I had an idea this morning on my way to work that might make the cutting of the lid of tessellated box more accurate/straightforward. So the current procedure is to v carve the tessellated pattern, pour the epoxy, sand the epoxy and then re mount the pieces on the CNC to be cut into the…

  • There’s nothing too crazy different to report on since yesterday. I’m happy with the 3D printer upgrade, it definitely makes a significant difference in the amount of noise that’s coming out of the machine. I’ve sort of been in music making mode for the last few days and yesterday I rearranged a bunch of hardware…

  • Over the last week or so, I’ve been printing pieces to an upgrade to my 3D printer. I purchased my 3D printer on a black Friday sale last year and it cost $250 marked down from $350. It’s a FlashForge Adventurer 5M. 3D printing nerds might already know that you can modify this machine and…

  • I ended up taking my Thursday and Friday off last week to help my wife with her mom. My wife has traveled to Ann Arbor every day since last Monday and so I helped with the house and toddler. It has been really rough on her and her guardian mom. I was still able to…