shop layouts

My dust collector is inside my shop in my wood room but there is no dust.
I put it in a corner on an outside wall, ran the collector pipes through the wall, cut a hole in the outside wall which I filled with furnace filters, then I built a 4' X 6' box/room out of High R insulation board. This box completely covers the collector and the exhaust air is vented outside. Heat and cold can't get through the insulation so all you lose is the air you exhaust.

One side of the box opens for maintainence and bag change.
 

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Linds Custom Cues pt 2

More pics of the shop
 

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Sanko Cues

Sadly, Joe Sanko is no longer with us. Here are a few photos of his shop that I had saved.
 

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All these pictures are incredibly interesting! Thank you all for sharing them!

I would love to see pictures of Michael Capone's shop, does anyone have pictures of it? If so, please share it! :)

Thank you!!
 
Well its been 4 months since I first started this post with a empty 10 x 20 garage, learned alot since then,
still got tons of work to do, learned alot from this post regarding equipment, and got lots of ideas , thank-you everyone,
here is my now mess hall !!! 4months later

Mark
 

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almarktool said:
Well its been 4 months since I first started this post with a empty 10 x 20 garage, learned alot since then,
still got tons of work to do, learned alot from this post regarding equipment, and got lots of ideas , thank-you everyone,
here is my now mess hall !!! 4months later

Mark

Mark, looks like a great start. Your shop is a hell of alot cleaner than mine. Looking forward to checking out some of your work.

Jim.
 
Mc2 said:
Mark, looks like a great start. Your shop is a hell of alot cleaner than mine. Looking forward to checking out some of your work.

Jim.

I expect more sawdust. I make it for a living and expect others to have some.
 
Graciocues said:
I expect more sawdust. I make it for a living and expect others to have some.

My shop is such a mess that I have people sign a form in case they are swallowed up and can't be found they're relatives cant suit. :D :D

Dick
 
A fantastic thread !

Very nice to see how you all are working together with you're equipment.
However, I can see a lot of you having you're industrial dust collector inside
you're working room....
I'm allergic to dust and my experience is to get the dust collectors out
of the room you are working in. The collectors many of you have used do not
take care of the respirable dust and would for sure cause problems in the long
run by spreading all the respirable dust in the working room....
Many great pic's of shops.
Happy cue making :-)

Kent
 
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Newton said:
A fantastic thread !

Very nice to see how you all are working together with you're equipment.
However, I can see a lot of you having you're industrial dust collector inside
you're working room....
I'm allergic to dust and my experience is to get the dust collectors out
of the room you are working in. The collectors many of you have used do not
take care of the respirable dust and would for sure cause problems in the long
run by spreading all the respirable dust in the working room....
Many great pic's of shops.
Happy cue making :-)


Kent

You raise a good point. I use drywall bags in my shopvac and also use a hepa filter. I seem to be alergic to quite a few types of wood and the dust.
With the above and a resperator I am ok for the breathing, but the oils from cocbola make me rash. The cure is not to use Cocobola.
Also having a hose pointing out the window for the outlet has also helped. Neil
 
I did a re-read and my apology... I did not see that Chris had posted the same comment earlier, but I guess it don't hurt to mention this another time.

Kent
 
shop layout for the New Year...

"SO MANY THINGS TO DO AND SO LITTLE TIME"
Still working on this, but just adding pictures and doing this on my time off for the holiday...:D
PUTTING MY CUEMONSTER TOGETHER. STILL HAVE TO PUT THE PC AND CONTROL BOX TOGETHER. ALSO NEED A ENCLOSED BOX TO CONTROL DUST.
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HERE THE HIGHTOWER LATHE BOUGHT FROM WALDO'S (JIMMY) FINALLY HAVE A CHANCE TO TAKE OUT OF THE SHIPPING BOX AND PUT IT ON THE 2 SEARS TABLES THAT ME MY FRIEND "PINKY" EUGENE KIM.
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MAKE 4 OF THOSE CUES/SHAFTS HOLDER. PUT EACH ONE NEXT TO EACH LATHE.
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STILL THINKING OF HOW BIG OF THE DUST COLLECTOR I NEED...:D
 
In regards to the dust collector, here is my advice, over do it, and don't be cheap, words can't express how clean this will keep your shop.

Bryan<--------who will over due it next time.

mine is hooked up to 4 lathes, and 2 other stations, can't have more than 2 going at any time for good suck.
 
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