The miracle of dust collection
Last night I was resawing some spanish cedar for a small cigar case I’m planning to make, using my new bandsaw. In case you’ve never done a woodworking project with spanish cedar, it’s a very aromatic wood that is used for making humidors and other things. It’s smelly, and I’d had no idea how smelly until the fine dust from the bandsaw found the back of my throat. Yuk!
I have a dust collection system, but I’ve used it more for chip collection with my jointer and planer than for dust, per se. I mean, it was the chips that I was noticing the most.
So while I was gagging from the cedar I pulled the dust collection hose off the jointer and connected it to the bandsaw. Perfecto! What a huge difference!
I was planning to hook up the bandsaw to the main dust collection system at some point, but now it will be a much higher priority.
