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Plywood is great but as you say not really suited to hand tools. I feel like a lot of the advice here is coming from people who are thinking about this stuff with a power tool mindset. Honestly I think what you plan to do works fine and isn’t quiet as crazy as this this thread would suggest...

The Laguna comes with two 100mm dust ports so the high volume requirement is probably just down to how inefficient the design is (the bottom port comers the entire bottom cabinet for example) From what I’ve read/seen it’s better to use a high pressure system as close to the source of dust as...

Very helpful thanks. Also nice that it matches up with what I'm thinking in terms of using HPLV for everything. I have created the below shroud and I was going to get a 63mm dust port added to it but watching that I might be better off just putting some plumbing pipe through it and get that as...

So I've tried to simplify this by making modifications to the bandsaw. I found a video about my specific bandsaw and creating a custom dust shroud to both improve the dust collection but also make it more suited to a HPLV sho vac style setup. I'm now thinking I have the bandsaw setup with two...

So I’ve made the custom shroud this morning and now just need to choose a dust port to attach to it. Probably a 63mm one from Axminster. The last photo tries to show how you can easily direct the stock dust port towards the blade. Using this bandsaw it does make plenty of dust and it tends to...

Yes so this sounds very familiar to what I'm trying to do but with the slight change that I don't intend to get a thickness planer at any point. I'm trying to figure out dust extraction now. Currently I only have a shop vac with cyclone which wasn't suitable for the bandsaw. I was thinking I'd...

This sounds very similar to what I’m starting to do. I bought a 14bx for the extra features and and power as I wanted it for resawing which is very slow hard work with hand tools. How accurate you can be is more down to our skills with the hand planes as like you describe you do the rough work...

Just for some more info. I don't own a P/T or table saw and don't intend to get them. I do have a drill press in a fixed position but I think I can manage dust from that using the current set up. The bandsaw is on wheels so I can move it to cut longer lengths so not in a fixed location. I...

I am generally a hobby hand tool woodworker. Most of the mess I make is shavings which I brush up. Occasionally I do use a powered router, jigsaw or a hand held sander from Makita and for dust extraction I've been using a (very) noisy Vacmaster wet dry vacuum connected to a cheapo cyclone over a...