Thread: Trouble with Horn for scales

Originally Posted by Oustoura

It's not directly related with this post but it is a part of it.

As I've breathe problem and I use a medicament for it. The dust of horn kills me every time. I'm using some simple masks to protect myself but they don't work enough. Do you guys use any of a tool to protection from dust while working? What kind of a mask do you use?

What i have done is set my sander up with the vaccum cleaner tied to one end so almost all of the dust gets sucked up. It helps on the clean up to.

I've a bag for it which collect the dust but even when the horn or wood is on the paper while sending there is too many dust comes out from left and right sides.

I have a pretty grand dust collection and air filtration system and have to say when sanding anything in my shop I smell nothing and have almost no airborne dust. I recommend dust collection and air filtration. Even a good shop vac with a hepa or equivalent filter it pretty effective. Just make sure it is a high volume vacuum, with a kicking filter and all will be well. I have done a lot of working in a mask and it takes a quality mask that is properly fitted to keep it out of you lungs.

The hand plane is dust free and works very well once you have it set up.

My mind is about gone but I think it was a you tube video that showed me the vaccum set up. I think and i may be wrong but i think it may still be on you tube. Ck out makeing scales for razors. I will try to find it.

A small cardboard box, duct tape and a shop vac hose. Make sure point the exhaust out the door or clean the filer frequently.

A strong fan blowing across your face and the work helps, as does a good face mask, they are not expensive.

Always cracked me up in the movie apollo 13, where a group of engineers at NASA designed a filtration system to save the astronuts, "they fabricated a air scrubber from spare parts and duct tape" that saved their lives...

They put a filter in a cardboard box and duct taped the intake and exhaust hoses on to it.

This is the luthier method referred to earlier:
First is the horn blank - then run through the thinning process and finally the pre-finished side prior to cutting scales and hand sanding to shape and contour. The last photo shows the set up and how the extraction system works.