This is a thread where anyone can share photos of their shop, and especially the ways you make your shop more effective. Things that might make them more effective are storage strategies, work flows, dust collection, the strategic location of your Moaning Chair or Magic Fridge.
I'll start with a shot I posted on another forum discussing dust collection (in case you don't want to wade further into this post, the canoe is a strip-built Spanish cedar canoe built by the St. Lawrence River Skiff, Canoe & Steam Launch Co., just down the road from me in Clayton, circa 1885-1990) :
The main collection is Jet 1100cfm, formerly a two-bag mobile collector, now the guts are mounted on the wall. The exit filter is from Oneida - I forget the size but is very fine micron level. The Oneida Dust Deputy empties into a 35 gallon metal trash can. The light above that is supposed to notify when the bin is full, but it's never worked properly
. The duct work is simply 5" and 4" metal duct from the local hvac shop. Permanent connections are made to the router table, table saw, and band saw. A fourth drop ends in 4" flex hose that gets switched between jointer, planer, combo sander and whatever else. The 2 1/2" drop over the table saw is mounted to Shark Guard (stowed for non-through cuts in this photo).
Overhead, between the TS and BS is a box 3-stage dust filter - it's connected to a timer switch, so I can turn it on and leave, without having to remember to turn it back off.
Barely visible just behind the TS is my brand spanking new Festool dust extractor with Oneida Systainer Dust Deputy onboard. And further beyond that is a Rigid Shop-vac with Dust Deputy mounted alongside.
I'd like to replace the heart of the DCS with an Oneida Supercell, and almost did a couple weeks ago when the Jet motor crapped out. However, a new start cap was a lot cheaper, and easier to justify when this set up is working pretty well.
I'll start with a shot I posted on another forum discussing dust collection (in case you don't want to wade further into this post, the canoe is a strip-built Spanish cedar canoe built by the St. Lawrence River Skiff, Canoe & Steam Launch Co., just down the road from me in Clayton, circa 1885-1990) :
The main collection is Jet 1100cfm, formerly a two-bag mobile collector, now the guts are mounted on the wall. The exit filter is from Oneida - I forget the size but is very fine micron level. The Oneida Dust Deputy empties into a 35 gallon metal trash can. The light above that is supposed to notify when the bin is full, but it's never worked properly
Overhead, between the TS and BS is a box 3-stage dust filter - it's connected to a timer switch, so I can turn it on and leave, without having to remember to turn it back off.
Barely visible just behind the TS is my brand spanking new Festool dust extractor with Oneida Systainer Dust Deputy onboard. And further beyond that is a Rigid Shop-vac with Dust Deputy mounted alongside.
I'd like to replace the heart of the DCS with an Oneida Supercell, and almost did a couple weeks ago when the Jet motor crapped out. However, a new start cap was a lot cheaper, and easier to justify when this set up is working pretty well.