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’ve been on and off with filming my projects for the last 3 to 4 years. I have gone through a few phases of style and presentation, but I have not landed on anything consistent. I’m talking about video that is made specifically for YouTube. Longer format video is tricky, because you’ve got to keep…
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Yesterday I had a little extra time and so I ended up finishing my new spoil board. It was one of those rare instances where everything came together really nicely and no major mistakes were made. The new spoil board is 21.5″ by 21.5″ which is quite a bit smaller than the 32″ by 32″…
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The barn in which I do my woodwork is tattered and old. It is often a home for squirrels, and bugs. It has been a nesting place for birds that open holes in the side that have grown in size. Since moving into our house in 2022, my attention towards the barn has not been…
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Last year I built a small shave horse. I sort of made my own design. It is small, and sturdy but has quite a few limitations. It does the job but not perfectly and I suppose that is okay. I made it to take up less floor space than a larger one because I work…
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Seems like a good title for a woodworking blog page. “The Spoil Board”. Anyway I am currently working to increase the efficiency of my CNC. I flattened it yesterday for the first time since I got the machine. It had a mosaic of past carves outlined into it. I’m working to make a spoil board…
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I’ve been racking my brain to figure out a fun innovative way to utilize my CNC machine. It is much easier said than done. I’m working on a humidor that is a small mahogany lidded box for my cigars, but then inlaying that box into a larger piece of wood and then shaping that larger…
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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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