Working in a wood shop... How to?

[adampolo13]

Hey guys,

So as some of you already know my wife and I just completed our cross country move, California to Rhode Island. The one downside is that we are staying with my wife's parents for a while unitl our house sells back in California. This leaves me down a mancave, the only area I am going to be able to do any real work in is my Father-in-law's wood shop! I'm not too worried about construction in there but painting, that is another story! Does anybody have experience building/working/painting in a wood shop? I'm thinking I could build some sort of spray both with a cover so that when I'm done doing whatever I can just close it up. Keeping the saw dust etc out is going to be a pain. Any suggestions? Hopefully it wont be too long, but I am addicted and can't stay away. God know's if I keep building my stash without building anything my wife will go insane... hahaha

Thanks again,

Adam

 

[hooterville75]

adampolo, my mancave is down in my basement which is very dusty so what I did was put heavier plastic up on the rafters to attempt to trap as much dust as I can. It works relatively good as I don't get much dust on my paint jobs. I always cover the parts I paint until there cured and after I'm finished working on anything before stopping for the night. I always use a tack cloth to wipe everything off as well before resuming again the next time. Donn Yost also recommended a metal supply of some sort (I forget the name) on his video that you can nail up on the rafters of your work area as well to trap dust.

 

[amateurmodeler]

you could try riggin up an old table cloth or something to cover it. My dad does wood work and when I used to live at home I had a shelf above where I worked and attached the table cloth to the shelf with some clamps. Then just let it draped down over the model ( of course making sure it doesn't touch it. Could even use some spare wood to hold the table cloth down so it didn't open on accident.