Post #194250 by Polynesiac on Sat, Oct 22, 2005 12:25 PM

I do all of my carving outside, so confined dust isn't really an issue with me, but I always wear a good quality respirator when doing anything that has tons of flying dust (carving with a dremel, sanding, grinding, etc).

I have a very close friend who is a master woodworker and he swears by the delta tools that ben showed. His set up is pricey, but what price do you put on health?
here's a few examples:
http://www.rockler.com/CategoryView.cfm?Cat_ID=501
and all the connectors: http://www.rockler.com/CategoryView.cfm?Cat_ID=237
toget the dust out of the air your dust collecting mechanism needs to be almost against the object that you are sanding.
Some tools also come with dust collection bags attached to the tools and they do an okay job of collecting dust too (not that good, but pretty good)

A sanding booth is a great idea and do PM lake. I remember seeing a picture of it in his post, and it's in his basement (if I remember correctly.)
I'm in the midst of sanding some hardwood floors in my house, and I put up some plastic in the doorways and it did a pretty good job of keeping the dust within the room I was sanding.

POLYNESIAC - putting the 'F' back in ART

[ Edited by: Polynesiac 2005-10-22 12:27 ]