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Im looking at a separate shopvac for table and miter saw, I think.
I just dont have the space for what's pictured above currently
Trying to find something under 17.5" tall ( or just over ) and 4 or 5hp

Yall are a great source of help, thank yall
 
HandyDave said:
Looks like you work quite a bit of cedar with all that purple mixed in. What gets done with that much saw dust? Is there a use for it? I've got jars of different dust from different species I keep so I can mix it with glue for this and that.
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We sell it by the cubic yard for horse stall bedding.

The cedar was a recent millwork job that we did for another miller. We usually don’t mill it ourselves as good logs are too difficult to source.
 
Scsmith42 said:
Meh, you guys are JV.

Last week we emptied my dust collection room. Filled 3 tandem axle dump trucks (F9000 size) over the rails....

For reference, the room is 14' wide, 25' deep and the stack is over 5' high. That's a lot of man glitter! LOL

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I thought you kept a truck parked under the down chute.
I’m told we need a 40hp motor, 7,500 CFM blower and 16” pipe for the 4 way planer moulder we’ve ordered. I’ve several 50 & 75hp motors, I need to find a blower setup.
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Powermat 1500 planing machine / moulder – WEINIG - Michael Weinig AG

WEINIG Powermat 1500: The all-round planing machine and moulder for unique flexibility in solid wood processing
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Get Off My Lawn said:
I thought you kept a truck parked under the down chute.
I’m told we need a 40hp motor, 7,500 CFM blower and 16” pipe for the 4 way planer moulder we’ve ordered. I’ve several 50 & 75hp motors, I need to find a blower setup.
m.weinigusa.com

Powermat 1500 planing machine / moulder – WEINIG - Michael Weinig AG

WEINIG Powermat 1500: The all-round planing machine and moulder for unique flexibility in solid wood processing
m.weinigusa.com m.weinigusa.com
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Seems overkill.

I'm running a 5' diameter blower with a 20" inlet on a 15hp motor. It works great evacuating my 6 head moulder. Granted that the moulder is located only around 10' horizontally away from the blower.
 
I'm working on a small project for my dad. He has been building some beautiful rustic wood furnishings for several years now as a side hobby/extra pocket money. Now that he's getting older and can't work construction as hard as he once could he's doing more woodworking projects and planing on more flea markets and craft fairs and such. I'm making him a business card holder out of a piece of cedar I had laying around. Still got a little clean up of my freehanded lettering and some sanding and prep for finish.20240521_112847.jpg20240521_112921.jpg20240521_112932.jpgI have a couple questions for you woodworking fellas. I want to epoxy resin the gaps from where bark was. I've never done the epoxy resin thing. I could ask my old man but that might ruin the surprise. I've ordered some pouring resin and some pigments and gold foil off the webs. I want to make the voids in this cedar cardholder look like a quartz vain with gold in it. Now for the questions. How is best way to block or tape everything off to keep the resin where I want it to be? How would I get the look I'm goin for like a golden quartz vain? And any other resin tips you guys can offer I'm listening. I've read some stuff online and seen a few tube vids about the resin pouring. But with the talent I've seen here figured I ask you guys.
 
HandyDave said:
I'm working on a small project for my dad. He has been building some beautiful rustic wood furnishings for several years now as a side hobby/extra pocket money. Now that he's getting older and can't work construction as hard as he once could he's doing more woodworking projects and planing on more flea markets and craft fairs and such. I'm making him a business card holder out of a piece of cedar I had laying around. Still got a little clean up of my freehanded lettering and some sanding and prep for finish.View attachment 782902View attachment 782903View attachment 782904I have a couple questions for you woodworking fellas. I want to epoxy resin the gaps from where bark was. I've never done the epoxy resin thing. I could ask my old man but that might ruin the surprise. I've ordered some pouring resin and some pigments and gold foil off the webs. I want to make the voids in this cedar cardholder look like a quartz vain with gold in it. Now for the questions. How is best way to block or tape everything off to keep the resin where I want it to be? How would I get the look I'm goin for like a golden quartz vain? And any other resin tips you guys can offer I'm listening. I've read some stuff online and seen a few tube vids about the resin pouring. But with the talent I've seen here figured I ask you guys.
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Blue tape backed up with modeling clay?
Don’t get modeling clay on the wood, it’s oily & frequently has a staining color.
I use modeling clay to make epoxy, Scott will probably chime in with a more gooder idea.
 
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HandyDave said:
I'm working on a small project for my dad. He has been building some beautiful rustic wood furnishings for several years now as a side hobby/extra pocket money. Now that he's getting older and can't work construction as hard as he once could he's doing more woodworking projects and planing on more flea markets and craft fairs and such. I'm making him a business card holder out of a piece of cedar I had laying around. Still got a little clean up of my freehanded lettering and some sanding and prep for finish.View attachment 782902View attachment 782903View attachment 782904I have a couple questions for you woodworking fellas. I want to epoxy resin the gaps from where bark was. I've never done the epoxy resin thing. I could ask my old man but that might ruin the surprise. I've ordered some pouring resin and some pigments and gold foil off the webs. I want to make the voids in this cedar cardholder look like a quartz vain with gold in it. Now for the questions. How is best way to block or tape everything off to keep the resin where I want it to be? How would I get the look I'm goin for like a golden quartz vain? And any other resin tips you guys can offer I'm listening. I've read some stuff online and seen a few tube vids about the resin pouring. But with the talent I've seen here figured I ask you guys.
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@Mirac ?
 
HandyDave said:
I'm working on a small project for my dad. He has been building some beautiful rustic wood furnishings for several years now as a side hobby/extra pocket money. Now that he's getting older and can't work construction as hard as he once could he's doing more woodworking projects and planing on more flea markets and craft fairs and such. I'm making him a business card holder out of a piece of cedar I had laying around. Still got a little clean up of my freehanded lettering and some sanding and prep for finish.View attachment 782902View attachment 782903View attachment 782904I have a couple questions for you woodworking fellas. I want to epoxy resin the gaps from where bark was. I've never done the epoxy resin thing. I could ask my old man but that might ruin the surprise. I've ordered some pouring resin and some pigments and gold foil off the webs. I want to make the voids in this cedar cardholder look like a quartz vain with gold in it. Now for the questions. How is best way to block or tape everything off to keep the resin where I want it to be? How would I get the look I'm goin for like a golden quartz vain? And any other resin tips you guys can offer I'm listening. I've read some stuff online and seen a few tube vids about the resin pouring. But with the talent I've seen here figured I ask you guys.
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Will you be clearing the whole project?
Definitely tape off what you don’t want epoxy on and use a backer like suggested. If it’s not too deep, you could use the 5ton epoxy in the plunger tube at the hardware store. I’ve used it with great success over big cedar striper plugs.

As soon as it’s poured, run a small torch over it and it will pull all the bubbles to the surface and pop.
It gets really runny too, so watch out.

That’s a great project! Your Pops is gonna love it .
 
Mirac said:
Will you be clearing the whole project?
Definitely tape off what you don’t want epoxy on and use a backer like suggested. If it’s not too deep, you could use the 5ton epoxy in the plunger tube at the hardware store. I’ve used it with great success over big cedar striper plugs.

As soon as it’s poured, run a small torch over it and it will pull all the bubbles to the surface and pop.
It gets really runny too, so watch out.

That’s a great project! Your Pops is gonna love it .
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Thanks guys for the replies. I was planning on just doing the gaps from where I cleaned the bark out of for the epoxy work. Then gloss poly over the entire thing when done. I'm comfortable with the wood and poly but not having no experience with resin pouring I knew I could get some answers here. There's just a small section of solid wood on one back bottom corner that is holding cardholder from being 2 pieces. And I want to do the epoxy kinda milky instead of clear so I got a variety of pigment and other stuff to play with. I want it to look like quartz and I got some gold film to stick small pieces random along the crack making end result look like a gold vain. That's the image in the ol hat rack anyway. I'll post finished pics when done. Unless project ends up flung down in the woods 🤣
 
Got the resin poured on the card holder I'm doing for my old man as a surprise. The gold vain look I wanted was kinda successful atleast across the front edge where I really wanted it. I've started sanding everything. The gold foil and glitter settled alot on the back corner where it was a deeper pour 20240525_104924.jpg20240525_104953.jpganother question for you guys is once I go through my grits and get everything silky smooth. How do I polish the resin to get the clear shiny back?
 
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