Shop tools and dust collection

What the shop runs on.

The dust collection, benches, stands and fixtures this shop works with, each one a live model. Turn it over, pull it apart, and set the numbers to your own machines. They are made from stock lumber, printed parts and standard hardware, and they come apart again with ordinary tools.

Dust collection · Shop tools and fixtures

Dust collection

Catch it at the machine.

A train from the tool to clean air: a cyclone drops the chips into a pail before the vacuum, a water scrubber wets what the vacuum blows out, and two air cleaners take the fine dust out of the room.

• Model 32Shop machine · 2026

  Bucket-top cyclone

  Takes the chips and coarse dust out of the hose and drops them into a 5-gallon bucket before they reach the vacuum.

  PETG · NPT threads · 10 piecesOpen the model
• Model 33Shop machine · 2026

  Bucket water scrubber

  Hangs from a bucket lid and fires the vacuum’s exhaust through water, so the dust that gets wet sinks.

  PETG · NPT threads · 10 piecesOpen the model
• Model 30Shop machine · 2026

  Sealed dust-train cabinet

  Cyclone, vacuum and scrubber in one sealed rolling cabinet, cooled through a MERV 13 filter so the vacuum only breathes clean air.

  Plywood · 5-gal pails · PETG portsOpen the model
• Model 29Shop machine · 2026

  Sanding table and air cleaner

  A rolling sanding table that is also an air cleaner: box fans under a lattice top pull the dust down through MERV 13 filters.

  Plywood · box fans · MERV 13Open the model
• Model 31Shop machine · 2026

  Filter-cube air cleaner

  Five MERV 13 filters around a furnace blower, on a rolling shelf: a filter-cube air cleaner for the whole room.

  2×4 · plywood · MERV 13Open the model
• Model 36Shop machine · 2026

  Drum cyclone

  A cyclone sized for fine dust on a shop vacuum: a printed 6-inch barrel between a printed head and a long printed cone, standing on a 55-gallon drum.

  PETG · 6″ bore · 55-gal drumOpen the model

Shop tools and fixtures

Benches, stands and jigs.

The furniture a shop is built around, and the small fixtures that make one job repeatable.

Benches, stands and storage

• Model 20Build library · 2026

  Workbench

  Two base cabinets under a laminated 2x4 top, sized by slider, with the plywood and the 2x4s counted for you.

  ¾″ plywood · 2x4 topOpen the model
• Model 34Build library · 2026

  Machine stand

  A rolling stand that puts a planer’s or a jointer’s bed at one working height, cut entirely with a miter saw and a drill, with an open-front storage cubby underneath.

  2x4 · 2x6 top · miter saw onlyOpen the model
• Model 37Build library · 2026

  Router table

  A rolling router table at 38 inches: a laminated plywood top, a bought insert plate, a pivot fence and a dust box round the router, piped to your collector.

  2x4 · ¾″ plywood top · pivot fenceOpen the model
• Model 35Build library · 2026

  Lumber workbench

  A rolling bench that stores the lumber under it: sheets on edge at the back, 2x and 1x in open tunnels, loaded from either end.

  2x4 · 2x6 · 1x6 · six castersOpen the model
• Model 16Shop project · 2026

  Cleat cabinets

  Open boxes on a French cleat in five joinery styles, with the cut list, the sheet count and the cleat line for your wall.

  ¾″ plywood or pine · five stylesOpen the model
• Model 15Shop project · 2026

  Stacking drawer module

  A Gridfinity drawer that stacks on itself and takes bins on top, printed in one piece with no support.

  PETG · Gridfinity 42 mmOpen the model
• On the drawing boardBuild library · 2026

  Router table

  A laminated plywood top on a rolling stand, with a pivot fence and dust pickup above and below the bit.

  Being designedNot yet live

Machines, fixtures and jigs

• Model 28Shop machine · build log · 2026

  Small CoreXY printer

  A small, fast 3D printer built from a retired printer’s parts, after an open-source design. Its page is the build log.

  V-slot · MGN9 rails · KlipperOpen the build
• Model 02Shop project · 2026

  Furnace-filter clip

  Holds a 20-inch furnace filter on a box fan, cut to one measurement taken off your own fan.

  PETG · measure yoursOpen the clips
• Model 04Made to order · 2026

  Gripper fingers

  Robot-gripper fingers cut to the part being picked, so it is held on four lines and set down in the same place every time.

  PETG or PA-CF · brass insertsOpen the model
• Model 05Shop project · 2026

  Cast gasket mould

  A printed mould for casting a solid rubber gasket at the hardness you need, instead of ordering hundreds.

  PETG mould · cast urethaneOpen the model
• Model 08Shop project · 2026

  Laptop stand

  Stands a closed laptop on its edge at the bench, vents up, with every cable in its own lane.

  PETG · two different partsOpen the model