Thread: Carved Burl

Most of the guys I have seen making similar items do it outside in the breeze. Arbortech do their demonstrations at the Working with Wood Shows in a perspex box about a meter cube. Taking things a bit further, you could rig up a similar cube with a dust extraction system similar to a sand blasting cabinet and access via gloves through a flexible see through curtain. Sound proofing of the cabinet to some degree would be a good thing to do.
Worst case scenario would be doing it in the garage with a good fan behind you to blow the dust out into the yard. (Watch out for the washing on the line - not a good way of earning brownie points).
Dust blowing all over the neighbours probably isn't too smart either!
Alan...

I can't think of any practical way of keeping the chips confined using an Arbortec. Its a messy business best done outside. If weather is a problem then I would find some other form of carving to switch to on days when the weather doesn't permit outside work. Smaller cutters like Archer or Foredom driven burrs are small enough that a good extractor can remove most of the dust povided you can work close enough to the intake. I've built mine into a drawer under my workbench. I can pull the whole assembly out to a comfortable distance for me to work. When not in use the whole assembly slides under the bench top, out of the way.



Hope its of some help...

Thank you Allan and Whittling, confirms my view that there isn't that much one can do using the Arbortech.

Something like this might help: http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&key..._1t0cw5sfl9_ee

or:

http://www.amazon.com/Resp-O-Rator-D...s=resp-o-rator

I have both in my wood working shop. I actually use the Resp-o-Rator the most, light weight, easy to use.

I don't carve much but either would be a good way to not breath all that dust in.