Woodshop Dust Control: A Complete Guide to Setting Up Your Own System: Completely Revised and Updated

While the subject matter may seem dry (no pun intended!), it is essential for even the most casual weekend woodworker to consider dust control. For health reasons, or for the finish quality of your project, controlling dust actively is critical. Well written with excellent photographs, even a die-hard woodworker of many decades like yours truly found something new to make my shop a cleaner, healthier place for a beloved family activity.

Ok, you've got to be getting pretty specific if you are looking at buying a book solely devoted to an over-sized vacuum cleaner that sits in the corner of your garage. HOWEVER, if you need this information, it has to be compiled by someone!
Sandor does a great job of taking this topic and logically covering the topic of dust collection. He considers your needs, a small shop-vac to huge steel-ducted multi-stage collector rooms that you build OUTSIDE the shop!
I found several usable tips and recommendations in this book and will put the ideas to work. If you've thought, "Dang I'm vacuuming a lot in here," or, "Cough, cough, cough, cough....Ewww, what's that?" you should take a look at this book. It addressed a very specific issue realistically and seriously enough to be extremely thorough.
Highly recommended for serious woodworkers!

The book is ok, but I wish he would spend more time on running a DC system in a small home shop. Also, a topic I was interested in (grounding a pvc based system) was brushed over in less than a page.

Very detailed, Easy to read, very helpfull in setting up shop.

Basically what I found is just when the book was getting into enough detail to be useful the section would end.

The book is fine if you haven't ever read an article on dust control. But a two page section on dust control from sanders right at the end of the book??? Come on give us a little meat here. Little detail is given on how to control dust with jigs or with equipment that doesn't have dust control.

I gave it 2 stars because I found it wasn't technically detailed enough to be useful and very vague in areas that really needed attention. Took me 3 hours to read it..I'll put it on the book shelve where ironically enough it will probably gather dust.