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
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I have always struggled to do the same thing over and over. I realized late in life that becoming a jack of all trades, master of none is actually somewhat of a nightmare. I am endlessly curious and tend to get distracted by activities that look interesting for a couple of weeks or months and…
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Does spending more time and energy make the work more valuable? Depends on what you’re creating. Spending time on work that nobody wants is not time well spent, unless you aren’t planning to sell the work. In todays day, there are plenty of precision tools that speed up the mundane tasks such as jointing and…
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One of the main reasons I started this daily blog was to simply get into the habit of writing my thoughts down. It is a personal archive but also an exercise in discipline. I am absolutely not feeling like writing today but I saw something last week that motivated me to make small changes in…
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In my attempt to improve my own woodworking and further my understanding of the craft, I purchased a set of books published by Lost Art Press in 2016 titled The Woodworker. This unique set of four books sets out to preserve the work of Charles H. Hayward, a premier craftsmen and educator. Over the next…
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This weekend, as I was working in my woodshop happily carving my next tobacco pipe, I made a grave mistake. I got lost in the sauce and carved too deeply into the stem. I carved a hole into it and rendered the thing firewood. Or did I? My first thought wasn’t “I have to start…
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One of the worst habits a person can have is leaving work unfinished. It is a habit that plagues many, and plagued me for a long while. I recognized the importance of ‘finish what you start’ when I naively took on a colossal project at the age of 16. I set out to restore my…
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I am a father of a three-year-old daughter, Naomi and husband to Jamie. We are a proud, multicultural household in Farmington Hills, MI. My dad is a carpenter and handyman extraordinaire who had a dream of restoring mining houses in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, where I am from. I frequented his woodshop and learned how to…
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