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This is the second one I've made but I dressed this one up a bit. I used maple, cherry and Peruvian walnut. Magnets are embedded from the back side in each square and a small one glued to the back of each piece.

A while back Paul @Scrappile posted some info on his dust collection system and many folks from the village responded. So I decided to set up one for my saw as well. I have a very large noisy dust collector which I use for my large equipment but I wanted something quieter while I scroll saw. I bought the Dewalt Stealth (really quiet) shopvac and set it 20' away from my little workshop room (located in our Orchard Building). I then hooked up the locline suction tube Paul suggested and purchased the bottom attachement from @James E. Welch https://bigriverwares.etsy.com/listing/1497458276 and hooked that up as @rafairchild2 described using dust gates as a "throttle" to decrease the suction to just what I needed. Then I took @Rolf cool collecting catch system and added it... so If I had a piece that was sucked up it would land in my catch container. I didn't have a container like his, so I took an OXO storage container from my kitchen (it held coffee beans) and drilled 2 1/2" holes in both sides and used it as my collection container with a screen over one side. I also added a "Y" where it came out of the wall so I could add a vacuum hose for clean up in my shop. Wow! it really works great. I used to use a small paint brush to remove some of the sawdust and now I don't need it. I also have virtually no dust on the floor anymore.... Thank you Village People for all your help!

The most important work is making a gift to your love..Made this wooden comb to my wife as a birthday gift.

This is definitely on my top portraits. I play and sing several John Prine songs so I am keeping this one and putting it on my music wall. The piece is poplar planed down to 1//2”. The frame I wanted to make as unique as John Prine himself so I used 1-1/4 maple butcher block counter top.

An Alex Fox basket #C78. I used 1/4” Baltic Birch plywood 10” square. Cut on the Pegas Scroll Saw using Pegas #1 MGT blades. After sanding with a Mac Mop, two coats spray Lacquer Clear Gloss with a light sanding between coats. Comments welcome.

My oh my, aren't you getting fancy, except that is the wrong saw! But looks like a great setup. I also liked @Rolf catch the little stuff, but was too lazy to build it in. So I added catchers at the source. The black thing in my nozzle is out of a delta faucet water defuser and the pinkish red on is out of the cap of a toilet bawl cleaner dispenser! Both work great and it anything is small enough to get through those, It is gone although I will be in my 5 gallon bucket my dust separator sits on. So anxious for you to use your new saw. I am still undecided about the Hawk here in Richland. I keep going back and forth on it.

This was a gift for my eight year old grandson. He picked the colors. Cut from poplar. Most of the parts were cut on the scrollsaw. My wife painted using DecoArt acrylic paint and coated using a clear lacquer Plans are from Toymakingplans.com

My little contribution for Christmas Dinner. Spent Christmas at my daughter's. It was great first time in about five years. She asked me to cut some napkin rings for the dinner. So at her request I did Mr and Mrs Kringle. Which is a Diana Thompson pattern. I cut them sanded them but they had to paint them. I am just to shakey anymore.

Just having fun.

Thanks so much. The chess pieces are compound cut on my scroll saw.

The squares are 1 3/4" with 1/4" strips in between. The chess pieces are about 3/8" thick.

Thank you both! I do remember you both stating not to glue your parts in previous dust collection threads, so I followed your advice and did not glue anything. Mostly used those rubber connecters that just are tightened up with a screw. I do think I may have used gorilla tape in one place that was a bit loose. In a couple of places I used Woodcraft dust collection couplings to hold things together (especially on my collection box). https://www.woodcraft.com/products/4-pieces-2-1-2-clear-dust-collection-network-coupling-woodriver-dust-connection?gclid=Cj0KCQiAhc-sBhCEARIsAOVwHuTpPgMf72hkPLK4ucHil0D86zH_8iezWunp8ZH1FTPtOgK5u1W1jNIaAga2EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds Thanks again for all your great suggestions!

Another beauty Dave. Jeff

Marie C, great pictures! I did not glue any of the PVC joints as periodically some bits get caught in the bends. @Scrappile Clever use of leftover bits. for you small parts catcher.

Another beautiful project! Masterful!

Great work, beautifuly done. I'm sure she will love it (next to the string of pearls or dimond ring you also got her.)

Wow! What a great job on a great idea!

Another beautiful piece Dave, excellent craftsmanship, RJ

If you need better pictures (close ups, let me know. When I turned it on without adjusting the dust gates, the locline really was noisy (kind of a high pitch) but when I open my gate just a little to the hose for clean up, it really quieted down and still provided plenty of suction.

Great Idea on how you catch your pieces....but I do like Rolf's set up and I will use that on my Hawk. Yes, I now need to buy another locline and the bottom dust collector device from James for my new saw...which I can't wait to start using. I notice all dust collection systems are 25% off at Woodcraft for all of January, so I am going to need to order some more tubes and dust gates, etc. I did look at that Hawk you are interested in...It looks really clean. Maybe I will try making some sawdust with my new Hawk so I can let you know how I like it...unfortunately, it is still sitting in our very cold orchard bldg right now because my heated woodshop is too small.

Nice write up. You included pictures and village people.