Bob, I liked the project, more over I liked the way you structured your video. Direct and straight to the point with no BSing around and not overly wordy. Stay with that and I'm a fan for life.
Nice and simple. Dust sucks. Well produced video as always!! Short, to the point, needed detail, good lighting, clear images, good camera angles. Always enjoy the work you do!!!
I really enjoy these videos on ILTMS. Every single video, or at least 99% are entertaining with the music and quick clips of each step, while also informative to help teach people the ins and outs of making things. I always enjoyed puzzle solving and making things, but these videos have made me want to get involved with making cool practical real life things and I plan on trying when I have the room and resources to get started.
At the end, when you were describing the other benefits to having the hole in drilled in your workbench, I realized that it could be really useful for cleaning up your workbench. To your point, the downdraft really only works for finer dust. If you had larger chips or shavings from using, say, a router or a handplane on your workbench, presumably, you could just sweep the chips in the bin with the shop vac turned on. Seems like it would make clean-up a lot easier!
I built one of these last year as a stand alone. It sure make a big difference to my lungs and eyes. I don't know how often others find themselves in a cloud of dust but this is a great way to better take care of yourself.
Just found your page. Love it. An additional use for this box would be to get a piece of 1/4" Plexi or safety glass either to fit or in a frame to fit. One of the small LED hand held spotlights inside the box and you've got a light table.
Love this! My fav videos are furniture builds but even better are your videos of clean and organized shop builds. I literally apply your ideas to my builds and I’m grateful you share and educate top notch info
My husband and I love your channel! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and passion! Great tutorials! We really appreciate your tips throughout each video that offer alternative methods! Please keep it up!
my man! i found myself needing to make a down draft table and - behold you created one. thanks for what you do and for posting it here so that many may benefit from your work!!
thank you for the information. i am trying to get enough woodworking ideas together to make a productive shop to create. this little thing is definitely going to be part of my island.
Nice work man. I've been wanting to turn an outfeed table into a downdraft for a while now. Good to see you and the little lady this weekend. Keep on making on!
As always, great video. I don't mind the delay between your videos because your projects are always functional, outside the box and very well filmed. Keep up the great work and Happy holidays!
great project Bob..i 'm trying like a month to find a workspace to begin and it's not so easy in Munich where i live...your are an inspiration for me..keep going..
Nice quick build, Bob. Was just about to go to bed when I saw this come up in feed. Now I won't be able to sleep! If only my garage was sound proof...!
I built one from your idea. It works great but only covers a small area. I then went to my work bench where my tabletop sanders are located. I put 1/2 holes in a 2" grid pattern and set it up to receive my shopvac. It works great, but I have to sweep some dust across the top. It greatly cut down on airborne dust and sped up the clean up to a few seconds! Thanks!
Can you try to make one of those desks with hidden drawers and secret compartments? Like the puzzle box style desk? That would be the coolest thing ever! Love the channel!
Wow, great video man, I am a boat builder, and have been planning to build my own larger scale dust collector that is built into my work bench, one thats 8 feet long by 3 inches, set to the back of my 8x4 foot mobile work bench. Your video gave me some great ideas!
This is brilliant - I'm using an old formica kitchen counter as my workbench, and I got tired of the sink (which I realized I'm never plumbing in), so I just removed it and blanked it off with a scrap piece of MDF. Your insert solves 2 problems: controlling wood & metal dust in the room and making a flush counter.(I'll just have to glue up some cleats underneath to attach it.) Thanks!
I don't really want to put it in my work table but you gave me the idea to put it in my out feed table when I go and build one for my table saw . Thanks for the great videos you put up
Don't know how I missed this one when it came out, but it looks fantastic. I might have to consider making one. I especially liked how you mentioned using it for finishing projects as well.
Great video Bob !!! I will be doing this to my Work bench .... I always figured I would build a whole diffident downdraft table ... Now I didn't have to... THANKS it was GREAT talking to you at WWIA, it's amazing how much I got out of our conversation there, and how I have learned and been inspired by of the people I have found thanks to you content .... KEEP BEING AWESOME ...your music is pretty cool too
I've been looking to make one of these for the last few days, and then this popped up on my homepage. Now I'm debating whether to continue with the small box version like I planned, or to cut into my workbench to do it the way you did! Very nice work by the way!
I’m just starting to build a small hobby area in my apartment’s den. As I live in Canada outdoors isn’t always an option. I was looking for the cleanest way to do things inside. I’m now going to build my workbench with this addition in place. Great video and solution for my space. 👍
Oh and by the way thank you for your videos I built my nine-year-old a zip line because of your video she loves it I appreciate it man keep up the good work
This is so great! I'm totally going to make a dust collection system (like you made in the other video) and also do this to my table. I gotta get the dust collection under control. My shop is my garage and there is other stuff in there which is constantly getting covered in dust and needing to be cleaned up.
SUGGESTION… use the peg board as a guide for drilling larger holes with greater but consistent spacing. These can double for bench dog/hold downs/jigs and down draft. With the 1/4in center drill bit on an appropriately sized hole saw, you can quickly layout a grid… using two layers of material (your choice) or even scrap LVL you can find in a job site dumpster you get a solid top that does both work and dust abatement!
Hi Bob. I cant tell how much I enjoy your channel. I am an avid fan of all the stuff you make and inspires me a lot. Unfortunately I live in a tiny apartment in NY and I dont have any place for any tools. All I own is a drill and an electric stapler. I understand that I can get all the wood precut to dimensions etc from any stores like HomeDepot but for a total amateur like me and who was brought up in a home, where everything I touched was made of expensive wood like Teak, Rosewood etc, I lack the understanding of millions of options that are available. When I saw MDF at my local hardware store, it appeared weak and I did not like it so much. Could you please do a video explaining the various materials and their pros and cons that you regularly use. People like me would really appreciate that. Oh btw, you can find a simple haptic system I built several years ago in my channel.
Literally the past week I considered very similar idea, with two small differences - I need to make a table of a little smaller size and need low walls from 3 parties are necessary (I work with the engraver). Thanks for idea! I needed only to think up how to make sidewalls developing that they thus gave an flat surface of a table that it was possible to use and as a usual little table, for drawing or something similar.
I used to run a Slitter, a machine that cuts gigantic rolls of paper into smaller rolls of paper. The splice board was made of two downdraft boxes to hold the paper in place while you removed scrap and put in the splice. There were also some clamps and a cutting groove... anyhow, a downdraft table can be used to hold things in place. If you place paper that naturally wants to curl on that box it will lay flat. It can come in handy where you might otherwise need tape, but you don't want to use tape. I had not considered using it as part of the dust collector. That is a great idea! Bill
I've only just come across your videos recently. Good stuff man! Regarding this downdraft table, another option you could do it make it a bit deeper and do a Flush Mount Router table like Grant Thompson's. Multi Purpose and it could still be handy to have the dust extraction on when the router is going. Then any time you need to change it, Just swap out to peg board!
Well, I finally broke down and decided to make this downdraft table. I know that you said that it wasn't necessarily for the larger sawdust, and mostly the fine saw dust. I am not sure that mine works as well as yours. I actually followed your design to the "t" except for making my box 21"x 18" as opposed to 18 square and I used a piece of luan with holes drilled instead of pegboard which I didn't have anyways. Overall it worked great other than a few mishaps like putting the bottom on the wrong side. lol Either way, thanks again for making these video's and being my favorite channel. I would really really love more project videos especially the ones that you make things "for" your shop. aka the downdraft table, dust collection, dust collector arduino blast gates, etc. I also loved the brain pick with matthias Wandel. Thanks again.
***** Hey Matt! Sorry it's not working that well. How powerful is the vac? Mine isn't super powerful, but it works alright for sanding. It's definitely not something you could use for a vacuum forming table or anything without a LOT more suction.
awesome project, thank you for introducing this concept to me! I can think of one or two places in my shop I can install one of these. kind of gets me thinking about a spray painting station as well...
I build a similar one a while back and ended up tossing it because it was "Just another thing to store.." It would be nice to have something like this built in. Nice style and good marketing at the end.
Bob, I liked the project, more over I liked the way you structured your video. Direct and straight to the point with no BSing around and not overly wordy. Stay with that and I'm a fan for life.
Clean, simple and effective. Not to mention a good re-use of materials you had on hand. Great job! Thanks!
Nice and simple. Dust sucks. Well produced video as always!! Short, to the point, needed detail, good lighting, clear images, good camera angles. Always enjoy the work you do!!!
Dude your videos are awesome. Please don't ever stop!
Teh Stranger? Thank you!!!
I Like To Make Stuff
:D
Teh Stranger? I agree
Hell yeah
I really enjoy these videos on ILTMS. Every single video, or at least 99% are entertaining with the music and quick clips of each step, while also informative to help teach people the ins and outs of making things.
I always enjoyed puzzle solving and making things, but these videos have made me want to get involved with making cool practical real life things and I plan on trying when I have the room and resources to get started.
At the end, when you were describing the other benefits to having the hole in drilled in your workbench, I realized that it could be really useful for cleaning up your workbench. To your point, the downdraft really only works for finer dust. If you had larger chips or shavings from using, say, a router or a handplane on your workbench, presumably, you could just sweep the chips in the bin with the shop vac turned on. Seems like it would make clean-up a lot easier!
+David Lenz It does! I use it for that as well :)
I built one of these last year as a stand alone. It sure make a big difference to my lungs and eyes. I don't know how often others find themselves in a cloud of dust but this is a great way to better take care of yourself.
This is great Bob, and you're right - the versatility of the various inserts you could build make this a really appealing project.
Just found your page. Love it. An additional use for this box would be to get a piece of 1/4" Plexi or safety glass either to fit or in a frame to fit. One of the small LED hand held spotlights inside the box and you've got a light table.
Love this! My fav videos are furniture builds but even better are your videos of clean and organized shop builds. I literally apply your ideas to my builds and I’m grateful you share and educate top notch info
i think ever single video of yours at least 10 times!!! dude you ROCK!
My husband and I love your channel! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and passion! Great tutorials! We really appreciate your tips throughout each video that offer alternative methods! Please keep it up!
alphacrescent Thank you!!
my man! i found myself needing to make a down draft table and - behold you created one. thanks for what you do and for posting it here so that many may benefit from your work!!
BEN BUSH!! What's up man!
I am definitely doing this. I work with a lot of old wood, so I do a lot of sanding. This is perfect. Thanks for all the great videos!
thank you for the information. i am trying to get enough woodworking ideas together to make a productive shop to create. this little thing is definitely going to be part of my island.
I made a downdraft box a few months ago....now I need to mount it in my bench. Thanks for the innovation!
John
Nice work man. I've been wanting to turn an outfeed table into a downdraft for a while now. Good to see you and the little lady this weekend. Keep on making on!
As always, great video.
I don't mind the delay between your videos because your projects are always functional, outside the box and very well filmed.
Keep up the great work and Happy holidays!
James Mariotti Thanks so much! I appreciate that very much :)
So that's what a down draft table is for! Great project.
Combining this with the vacu-form is brilliant!!! THANKS!
summer vacation is coming up and i'm gonna build a hell lot of things thanks to your video ! Keep it up !
If only I had a garage pretty much every video would be recreated!! You're awesome!
This thing is awesome. With limited space in my 8X10 shed, this will be a great addition! Good job man, thanks for the idea!
great project Bob..i 'm trying like a month to find a workspace to begin and it's not so easy in Munich where i live...your are an inspiration for me..keep going..
Nice quick build, Bob.
Was just about to go to bed when I saw this come up in feed. Now I won't be able to sleep!
If only my garage was sound proof...!
Chris Noonan HA! Sorry to keep you up :) But now you've got something to dream about and work on tomorrow! Sleep well
Totally going to build this! Thanks for the project Bob!!
I built one from your idea. It works great but only covers a small area. I then went to my work bench where my tabletop sanders are located. I put 1/2 holes in a 2" grid pattern and set it up to receive my shopvac. It works great, but I have to sweep some dust across the top. It greatly cut down on airborne dust and sped up the clean up to a few seconds! Thanks!
Down draft tables are awesome, great video and project Bob.
Now that's worth the time to make. I think I will add some soft rubber matting to the top to help keep the wood in place. Thanks for the idea>
Can you try to make one of those desks with hidden drawers and secret compartments? Like the puzzle box style desk? That would be the coolest thing ever! Love the channel!
Wow, great video man, I am a boat builder, and have been planning to build my own larger scale dust collector that is built into my work bench, one thats 8 feet long by 3 inches, set to the back of my 8x4 foot mobile work bench. Your video gave me some great ideas!
This is brilliant - I'm using an old formica kitchen counter as my workbench, and I got tired of the sink (which I realized I'm never plumbing in), so I just removed it and blanked it off with a scrap piece of MDF. Your insert solves 2 problems: controlling wood & metal dust in the room and making a flush counter.(I'll just have to glue up some cleats underneath to attach it.) Thanks!
I don't really want to put it in my work table but you gave me the idea to put it in my out feed table when I go and build one for my table saw . Thanks for the great videos you put up
Don't know how I missed this one when it came out, but it looks fantastic. I might have to consider making one. I especially liked how you mentioned using it for finishing projects as well.
Love this video. Absolute simplicity.
Awesome idea bro, Thanks for the excellent suggestions and very detailed step by step directions!
Great video Bob !!! I will be doing this to my Work bench .... I always figured I would build a whole diffident downdraft table ... Now I didn't have to... THANKS it was GREAT talking to you at WWIA, it's amazing how much I got out of our conversation there, and how I have learned and been inspired by of the people I have found thanks to you content .... KEEP BEING AWESOME ...your music is pretty cool too
I've been looking to make one of these for the last few days, and then this popped up on my homepage. Now I'm debating whether to continue with the small box version like I planned, or to cut into my workbench to do it the way you did! Very nice work by the way!
Good quick and easy modification to an existing assembly or work table. Thanks for sharing.
I am going to be making myself a workbench in January and I think I shall incorporate this into my design process.
Very good man. I enjoy, and more importantly, learn from your vids. Thank you
great design and video Bob.
Very nice add on to the work bench, Thanks Bob
Glad I saw this before planning my new workbench! Great video.
I’m just starting to build a small hobby area in my apartment’s den. As I live in Canada outdoors isn’t always an option. I was looking for the cleanest way to do things inside. I’m now going to build my workbench with this addition in place. Great video and solution for my space. 👍
I really like the stop motion effect you got for some of the footage
Teodoro Salluzzi Thanks! It's all just sped up, usually up to about 8x.
I am obsessed with your work. Saw all. Evenhthough i have no work place haha
I made a free standing down draft that was always in the way so I repurposed it. I like this one, time for a new one. Awesome video. Thanks.
ivan mills Awesome! I hope it's helpful!
Nice modification to your bench and very useful.
This is brilliant! Guess what my hubby is doing next week. Thank you I'm sold.
Yes, I do like your project. I'm still in the process of building my first workshop so I will definitely be using this great idea. Thanks!
Oh and by the way thank you for your videos I built my nine-year-old a zip line because of your video she loves it I appreciate it man keep up the good work
Ted Baltz Awesome! That's great to hear!!
I like this. I do a lot of projects with pallet wood so something like this would help me out because of all the sanding I do.
This is so great! I'm totally going to make a dust collection system (like you made in the other video) and also do this to my table. I gotta get the dust collection under control. My shop is my garage and there is other stuff in there which is constantly getting covered in dust and needing to be cleaned up.
Great project Bob, thanks for sharing. I need to make one for my shop.
Felix from Nebraska
This is a great idea for my "shop" (aka second room in a NYC apartment). No extra space needed! Thanks!
SUGGESTION… use the peg board as a guide for drilling larger holes with greater but consistent spacing. These can double for bench dog/hold downs/jigs and down draft. With the 1/4in center drill bit on an appropriately sized hole saw, you can quickly layout a grid… using two layers of material (your choice) or even scrap LVL you can find in a job site dumpster you get a solid top that does both work and dust abatement!
Hi Bob. I cant tell how much I enjoy your channel. I am an avid fan of all the stuff you make and inspires me a lot. Unfortunately I live in a tiny apartment in NY and I dont have any place for any tools. All I own is a drill and an electric stapler. I understand that I can get all the wood precut to dimensions etc from any stores like HomeDepot but for a total amateur like me and who was brought up in a home, where everything I touched was made of expensive wood like Teak, Rosewood etc, I lack the understanding of millions of options that are available. When I saw MDF at my local hardware store, it appeared weak and I did not like it so much. Could you please do a video explaining the various materials and their pros and cons that you regularly use. People like me would really appreciate that. Oh btw, you can find a simple haptic system I built several years ago in my channel.
Great idea! Thanks. Will go in my To DO book for when I'll have my own workshop.
Great idea, great use of space, keep up the great work!
Love it !!! Im going to have to make one myself to cutdown on the dust in my small work space thx for the video.
That is very cool ! Definitely adding that to my work bench.
Love the push stick. Do you have a video for that... or maybe just dimension?
This channel is absolutely amazing!!!
Awesome project and great ideas on the implementation and possible other uses. Thanks for sharing.
Seriously great stuff! Love your videos Bob.
Bob, this is an epic idea!! Thanks so much for this tutorial. I'm going to build this today!
Daniel Ridley Awesome! You're very welcome!
Excellent concept, excellent video..thanks for sharing
you are the inspiration behind my new workshop setup for my dad !! :-)
Literally the past week I considered very similar idea, with two small differences - I need to make a table of a little smaller size and need low walls from 3 parties are necessary (I work with the engraver). Thanks for idea!
I needed only to think up how to make sidewalls developing that they thus gave an flat surface of a table that it was possible to use and as a usual little table, for drawing or something similar.
new to your channel after watching this video I'm a subscriber good job. you get the gears turning!
Jason Renfro Thanks!
I used to run a Slitter, a machine that cuts gigantic rolls of paper into smaller rolls of paper. The splice board was made of two downdraft boxes to hold the paper in place while you removed scrap and put in the splice. There were also some clamps and a cutting groove... anyhow, a downdraft table can be used to hold things in place. If you place paper that naturally wants to curl on that box it will lay flat. It can come in handy where you might otherwise need tape, but you don't want to use tape. I had not considered using it as part of the dust collector. That is a great idea!
Bill
This is the pace all how-to videos ought to move at.
Please, make a video on your tools!
You are making things so safe and beautiful)))
Wow! You did a really good job.
Awesome Bob!!!.i will be placing my vac in the bottom of the box...
I've only just come across your videos recently. Good stuff man!
Regarding this downdraft table, another option you could do it make it a bit deeper and do a Flush Mount Router table like Grant Thompson's.
Multi Purpose and it could still be handy to have the dust extraction on when the router is going.
Then any time you need to change it, Just swap out to peg board!
This was a fantastic addition and great idea!!!
Nice idea, I could definitely use something like that! Thanks for sharing!
Damn it Bob...you just keep making my project list longer. :) Cool stuff, keep it up.
Haha, sorry ? :)
Nice project. I hope to make one of these for my shop.
Hi, I'm new to the channel but it's really great! Good inspiration.
Genius design!
great build bob.
Great Idea thanks great watch and will be tuning into the Podcast!!!
Very nice job. I must make one for my shop.
At first I thought "Oh that's kind of neat" and then I saw your test at the end....I MUST MAKE THIS ASAP!
Rockin' project! Definitely a great idea, thank you for sharing.
Fantastic, I really like your videos, please keep up the good work.
Thanks for sharing, I will definitely make this change to my work bench.
Well, I finally broke down and decided to make this downdraft table. I know that you said that it wasn't necessarily for the larger sawdust, and mostly the fine saw dust. I am not sure that mine works as well as yours. I actually followed your design to the "t" except for making my box 21"x 18" as opposed to 18 square and I used a piece of luan with holes drilled instead of pegboard which I didn't have anyways. Overall it worked great other than a few mishaps like putting the bottom on the wrong side. lol
Either way, thanks again for making these video's and being my favorite channel. I would really really love more project videos especially the ones that you make things "for" your shop. aka the downdraft table, dust collection, dust collector arduino blast gates, etc. I also loved the brain pick with matthias Wandel.
Thanks again.
***** Hey Matt! Sorry it's not working that well. How powerful is the vac? Mine isn't super powerful, but it works alright for sanding. It's definitely not something you could use for a vacuum forming table or anything without a LOT more suction.
It was definitely something I did. I wasn't blaming you or anything, I just wanted to let you know that I used your design and that I'm a fan.
Right on! Well, if I can help you figure it out, I'd be happy to.. just let me know
awesome project, thank you for introducing this concept to me! I can think of one or two places in my shop I can install one of these. kind of gets me thinking about a spray painting station as well...
Very nice! I will be upgrading all of my Makerspace workbenches to have downdraft systems now :D
Nice work Bob
Really good space saving idea.
Great idea. Hookup it up to the vacuum exhaust port and it would double as an air hockey table.
I build a similar one a while back and ended up tossing it because it was "Just another thing to store.." It would be nice to have something like this built in.
Nice style and good marketing at the end.
I love this project! Very useful!
Nicely made video, subscribed 👍
Thanks so much I'm thinking of a down draft drawer for my jewellery bench. This was grate and esay to understand thanks again.