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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    • Brainstorming Quick Miters

      My brother asked me in January of this year to make him a huge 5.1 sound system. I am not really sure why I agreed to it, because the project was a little outside of my scope. The biggest sections of the project have been done, but there are some things still left to be…

    • Wood Ink Printing

      As I was falling asleep last night I came across a really awesome video of someone who was using wood to print in the same way that a person might do a linocut. You carve the negative space out of an image and then ink the surface and it will print the image onto a…

    • WoodworkingCalc

      Yesterday I was looking after my daughter, which sometimes can be sort of boring. She’s playing happily with her toys, but what do I do? I pulled out my phone and started playing around with Google’s Gemini AI. I discovered that it can program web apps for you extremely fast. So at first I had…

    • Woodworking on a Budget

      When I was living in DC with my girlfriend (now my wife) I craved woodworking like crazy. Before we moved to DC I worked in the scene shop for the university I was attending. We would work with sheet goods and 2x4s to build scenery for the plays that I would also have a hand…

    • The Bob Ross of Woodworking

      A friend of mine reached out over the weekend and asked if I could make her a chess board. We haven’t negotiated a price or a style yet, she asked what wood I like to use. I told her white oak, walnut, maple and cherry. She said that walnut and oak would be cool. It…

    • Last Weekends Projects

      I have a boys weekend in Chicago coming up this weekend, so I decided to make gifts for everyone. I spoke about it a few blog posts ago. Luckily, I already had a batch of whiskey smokers made up, so I was able to sand and finish those with no issues. I made a bottle…

    • Bad Habits

      I have a nasty habit of seeing what I can get away with when I’m woodworking. It usually happens when I’m trying to save time. Can I do it this way, save some time but run the risk of messing the whole thing up? If I do take the risk, sometimes it works out and…

    • Camera Usage and Sliders

      This week I’ve been subconsciously thinking about how to put my woodworking out there. I’ve made quite a few videos in many different styles, but I’ve never been able to land on anything solid. A few blog posts ago I stated what I think a good video is made of. It’s visually interesting, has a…

    • Gifts for Friends

      It brings me a great deal of happiness to make woodworking projects for friends and family. The weekend after next I’ve got a boys weekend celebrating the wedding of one of my best friends. We’re going to Chicago to watch Michigan beat Northwestern at Wrigley Field. Strange because Wrigley is a baseball field. I’m looking…

    • Projects on the Horizon

      I’ve always wanted to make money with woodworking. I’ve made a few huge projects and have assembled a valid portfolio, but I am far from breaking even on all of my investments. I believe I am still a few thousand in the red. Having a work shop is well worth it though and I wouldn’t…