Shop Work: Improving Dust Collection 

A refreshingly nice video with humor and excellent videography! Thank you. :)

Loved it - "instantly make my mistakes permanent" great 🤣🤣🤣

"i borrowed a scale from my neighbours meth lab" literally dying! i breathed in a mouthfull of pepsi xD

Dude, this is a great solution for 90 degrees! Well done!

It’s 9:40pm on Saturday night. I’m watching a guy weigh sawdust on RU-vid.

Gluing it to the saw was inspired. Thanks for the outtakes and the embedded humour and the final result. Great stuff.

I love the out takes. It’s so “true to life!”

Drew that’s such a great idea!!! And seams like it works awesome. Once I stop being lazy and finish my insanely enormous miter station I’m going to incorporate your design into it

LOVE your straight faced humor and how you emphasize your mistakes! Reminds us all that we're not the only ones who have an oops moment...... Oh yea, lotta good info too, thanks!

Your videos are always educational, enjoyable and entertaining. I can see myself in all of your "out takes!" Thanks for all you do for all of us!

Absolutely - perfect combination of information and (really clever) entertaining dialog. Well done!

Enjoyed the presentation. Showed several solutions and how they stacked up against one another without becoming rocket science. LOVED the humor!!

I got one of these saws(used) over the weekend. Once I repair the tilt lever your dust collection will be my first modification to it. Thank you for your videos. Very informative and entertaining.

"instantly make all my mistakes permanent"... that and the Turretts episode at the end reveals a kindred spirit. New Sub!

Great idea and solid outcome. Thank You for the videos and your commentary is awesome.

This is how instructional videos should be done. Humor, knowledge, and the results of what your trying to accomplish.. great job and I'll be using your idea for dust collection.

BEST woodworking video I have ever seen! The humor and outtakes are priceless!

Your videos, your craftsmanship, and your sense of humor are terrific!

As a retired mechanical tech, I love the weighing test. Best way to evaluate your different configurations.

Great idea and I love your "over-thinking" every detail. The honesty of the outtakes is probably my favorite part as they reflect the everyday realities of life in the shop!

Nice to see a mitersaw dust collection scheme that actually works well. Always enjoyable banter too. Thanks!!

Exactly my problem. Same saw, sam dust problem. Thx for the idea 👍🏻

OMG thank you for the out-takes at the end of the video. Gluing the attachment to your miter saw made my day. Its good to know that I am not the only one whose projects don't always go smoothly. Cheers ! :)

GREAT project Drew. I especially like the fact that it is so small and out of the way but VERY EFFECTIVE! !! !!!

Love the build, love the humor, love the outtakes. Perfect :)

Man I've seen some huge dust collection cabinets that almost fully enclose the back half of the saw. Really only good for a permanent mount and a non portable saw. In any case, the difference in massive amounts of material and time would only serve to close that 4% gap in collection. Your little doodad takes the cake. Simple, cheap, removable, and it allows the saw to remain portable. Nicely finnessed solution buddy. Good on Ya!

That was awesome. I’ve been planning a huge dust shroud for ages. Going to take my plans in a whole new direction. Love your sense of humor. I stopped the video three times to tell my husband what you said.

Never heard or seen your Channel before, but after watching just 1 video on your methodology for how to improve dust collection, I was hooked. You got yourself a new subscriber. Bravo!

Love the outtakes. It’s like you’re channeling me.

Great vids. Love the outtakes. Glad to see others have some of my days

Great video. Love the humor and just exactly what we are all thinking in the shop at all times

I love watching your videos. I am almost finished with my shop which took 4 years just to mod my tool stations. I have a similar saw mounted on a cart that I built. I think of it more as a sawdust spray unit than a miter saw. I pick which area of my shop that I want covered with sawdust, and just move the cart to that spot. I can cover anything! Thanks for sharing a good solution!

Just watched this video again. I have to say, my wife and I both really enjoy your sense of humor! It’s good to get reminded every so often that we need to keep things in perspective. For my part, I’m still trying to get organized, the workshop was too small, moved into the garage and it is currently overflowing with too much “stuff”, tools, stands, cabinets, benches, tables, etc. And of course, trying to get better dust collection, more wood storage, properly aligned tools that will cut square, or straight. I know, don’t blame the tool. But seriously, some tools are ridiculously difficult to align. And they refuse to stay aligned. Ah well, as the saying goes, it keeps me off the street corner. Perspective! We have to be able to laugh at ourselves. When we lose that, we’re in serious trouble. God bless, take of yourselves, stay safe!

I just upgraded to the same model Bosch a few months ago. Love it and I might try your dust boot to see if I can screw it up more than I have with my failed attempts at different ones.👍🏼

Thanks for including the outtakes! Makes me feel far less silly for all the gaffs I make during any build or project.

What fun! In addition to being funny, this video has the potential of saving a lot of clean-up time around my mitre saw. Many thanks Mr. Fisher. You’re good.

Great work, smart thinking. Best idea I've seen space wise, I like it forsure...

Nice job! Loved the bloopers - I totally would have glued it to my saw too!!

A very good solution. I have been working with dust exstraction proffesionally, and I guest that the increase is mainly fine dust. The dust that is irritating and very dangerous. Well done and thank you for sharing. Lars Rosenquist, Sweden

I simply love your videos together with your funny remarks! I watch the videos even if it might not always be a project that I'm intersted in. Keep up the good work!

OMG thanks for bloopers. As soon as I saw "glued it to the saw" I LOL pretty hard. Thanks for sharing your pain. As somebody who had been testing a lot of solutions, I'd love to see your take on bandsaw dust collection. They may be more unruly than miters.

This is the best video about dust collection ever!

love the fact that your out takes was literally a video of mistakes ive made. Thanks for sharing!

Drew is the best at humor AND good advice. Other channels you only get one or the other, never both.

A woodworker with a sense of humour doing a scientific project. Well done mate. Now I know I'm not alone....

I love your videos, you are naturally funny but approach things in a sensible way, the actual objective method used is really good especially as you finish with a percentage value of the actual timber removed by the cut. The out takes are brilliant and we will all recognise ourselves in them!

I appreciate your outtakes following the videos. It relieves the pressure on myself to be perfect, knowing the master makes occasional errors as well. You do great work! Take care.

has to be one of the most entertaining wood channels on YT. Giving Shaun Boyd a run for his money - bravo!

I really enjoy the bloopers...we all make them, and they all sound the same! :)

3:50 “Using a square I can hold things at 90° and then I hit it with some activator to instantly make all my mistakes permanent” 5:30 “. . . and then proceeded to get glue all over my table saw” 6:18 “ . . . and then after several years of filing I was able to turn that circle into an oval“ Lol 😂

I love your sense of humor! Thanks for leaving in the bloopers too. Two thumbs up!

Man, what a great video. Thanks for the outtakes. It's seldom that we get to see that side of making, so it can be frustrating when you're just starting out on your journey that you can't replicate the flawlessness of a video.

While watching, I was like, "He's lucky he isn't gluing that box to the table of the mitre saw." And then came the out-takes! 😂

Loved the last outtake. Watching you using the CA glue throughout this video I kept thinking "What skill this man has because I would have surely glued pieces to my saw doing it that way". Haha, I was right!!!!

love the outtakes at the end. , and the subtle comedy is like a breath of fresh air in the youtube diy world.

Your comments are awesome -- the outtakes are even better. Thank you for including those!

LOL! "Instantly male all my mistakespermanent"!!! I enjoy your projects and your dry sense of humor.

Honestly, I wasn't particularly excited about the topic, but your interesting and entertaining approach kept me watching to the very end. Great job - thanks for taking the time to make quality content.

I like the science side of this and the outtakes make me realize I’m not the only one. Thanks so much, very helpful!

Slick man!! Beats the hell out of all of those massive shrouds that I see being constructed for this purpose. Straight forward and simple for a beginner sawdust maker like myself. Thanks.

This guys commentary is hilarious! I have this saw I think I will make one of these too 😀

Thanks for the excellent explanation and the outtakes! They show you make the same dumb mistakes as the rest of us.

Okay, I am impressed. I have the same saw and I have tried several different ideas and tried several of my own and I will have to tell you, that you have done it. Great job thanks.

Yes well done, great quality of video and excellent idea. Thanks so much for sharing all your work and time spent putting this together for the rest of us.

I came here for the woodworking, and I am staying for the jokes. Love your sense of humor. 👍😜

I can't do the stuff that you do but it is always interesting and cool to watch!

You kept my attention the whole time with this great, informative and humorous vid. Thank you for sharing.

Fantastic outtakes. Love the honesty and the humour. Thanks for keeping it real.

I love my bag. It lets me have the other 33% to stand on comfortably all day and as an atmospheric woodshop vignette it hides a lot more than my mistakes.

The outtakes are priceless. They sound like me when I don't pay attention. 😂

Thank you for your work, time, and keeping it real. Please keep producing. Mahalo

Great video. I really enjoyed the science behind it all while keeping the tone light and fun. Thanks for the idea!

I should've watch this just a bit earlier, cuz I sent my entire day making my stupid version of dust collect box which seems to not working at all. And I have to say that the mathmatical approach that you have done is by far the most impressive(persuasive) on woodworking video. Amazing job man.

“I quickly hit it with some CA activator to instantly make my mistakes permanent.” LOL. Hilarious! Love it!

I love hearing myself talking to myself in your video's! ... Thanks, I really do enjoy your videos.

I like your videos a lot. I know this is an old one. I almost gave up on your experiment until the very end when you found the ratio between the dust and whole wood segment. Science!

I finally made this! I didn't go any tests beforehand but I don't think my default dust bag is anywhere close to 77% efficiency. It's really awful. The shroud seems to control at least 80%, and there are some small gaps I need to fill that I'm sure will make it even better. Overall EXTREMELY happy how this has turned out.

I have the exact same saw and this collection issue has been driving me insane for years. I now have a solution! Thank you so much for allowing us to pick your brain, subbed for more videos about your neighbors meth lab!

This could possibly be my favorite video ever. Also, amazing idea. Inspiring.

I love your quick wit man. Gave me a much needed morning laugh. Thank you bro

thank you for this. Mine has to be the dustiest tool in my garage

I don't have a mitre saw, but I stayed for the outtakes... ;-) 🇬🇧

9:14 Not only did you vastly improve the efficiency of the dust collection, you managed to transform the saw into a left AND right handed machine. Bravo Drew!

I love the way you show the mishaps at the end. This proves you are brave and human . Thank you from John.

Your funny, think I will try that with my saw since I have the same one. Keep up the funny informative videos. Thanks.

Woodworking, science, math, and humor!?! Great video, keep it up.

I appreciate the analysis and the humor. Thanks!

While I'm sure I'll never get around to actually building one of these ingenious gadgets for myself, I've re-watched the video at least a dozen times just for the laughs! Love your sense of humor!!!

Your outtakes sound like they were recorded in my shop!

Amazing idea!

This video is very well done from a shop point of view in addition to video story telling. An excellent piece of content.

Fantastic idea that works brilliantly !!! Thanks for taking the time to design this. I have been looking for a way of controlling the dust extraction from my Revolution rage-s 255 mitre saw and with your idea i tweaked it to fit and the results are brilliant. Thank you

This looks great (and saved to my "shop" playlist), but there's one solution you didn't test, and that is the "little bandshell" completely surrounding the saw. Those might work better with a large volume dust collector, so maybe the ultimate solution is to have both (considering diminishing returns, etc., etc., etc.)

Almost spit my drink everywhere when he said "borrowed it from my neighbor's Meth lab" lol!

After your video I had the inspiration to build my own. I designed it round so that you can cut at different angles. Works like a bomb 👍🏻

Loved the project. Loved the comparisons. I think it’s a great idea. Really enjoy the humor in all of your videos.

The narration of you videos are just as enjoyable as the video itself, they have a Winnie the Pooh feel to them. Haha. Keep up the great work!!

GREAT video! I love the scientific approach! Also.. very funny: 03:54 "Then I hit with activator to instantly make all my mistakes permanent..." 07:34 " I borrowed the scale from my neighbors meth lab..."

Your out takes increased my self-esteem 100%. Thanks for being human. Good job.

You are a great teacher. You are inspiring to me. I love the humor. I appreciate the outakes!