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Like you, I only use hand tools on European and British hardwood (mostly Oak and Ash) through choice in my indoor workshop. I avoid exotic timbers as a general rule for pernicious dust and I never, ever use MDF which is the worst thing ever, in my opinion.
Not being a complete glutton for unnecessary punishment, I do use small Kity thicknesser coupled to a Fercell chip collector in an outside garage / wood store. Other than that, everything is by hand. The dimensioned boards are brought inside for a few weeks to settle down.
I do take dust seriously, but I don’t use abrasives and this keeps it to a minimum more than anything else. However, there is some dust and I find that indoors a Microclean filter (from Axy many years ago) and the occasional dust mask will suffice. However, I do hoover up regularly with a triple-filter vac. My wife is ultra-critical about dust in the house and this does the trick.
Whatever you do, you can't avoid it but it is open to sensible management and I don't intend to go over the top and live or work in a factory.
Shavings? I burn logs on an open fire and use the long plane shaving to light it – best fire lighters ever. The planer chips go to the chickens down the road for bedding.
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