That’s cool. Set the dust shoe to just above the work surface and let the router plunge through it. I’ve seen those kinds of designs before, but was too lazy to come up with a solution myself.
Small update with coffee this part will be screw inside the shoe and you should glue dustbrush to it. Im trying to make it as much modular and as much feature rich as I can.
first test go better then I was thinking all dust was sucked in with vacuum set up to lowest power. I was pretty impressed.
But then I read few post and write thinks that I wona implement so in fact it will be the only dust shoe that you need .
So thinks that will be add:
front and some of the top of the dust shoe will be easy for disabled (magnets) to provide easy access to change the bit without taking off all.
top of the base will be transparent we all won to see how its cutting:D (that was problem with first version when I was trying it.
more staff for customize. (thickens of materials, what rods u won to use.)
some led light inside the shoe.(totally optional)
Is there something else that I should add? I'm again going on some business travel for 3 weeks so I can make code more beautiful and make sure everything is fitting better.
I tried using one single vacuum hose, but as it turns out it seems to work way better with one on each side of the spindle. It leaves almost no dust or chips at all this way, but it needs some kind of manifold to join both tubes into one.
Like you say, it would be better to make the top transparent, even if it is more a psychological thing than an actually useful thing. I planned to do that, but got a bit lazy.
Also, I would suggest you to go for smooth rods instead of threaded rods for supports, it is way faster to set up and it won’t actually move after being tightened.
Another last remark: try to make it as low as possible to maximize the suction power. Yours seems to be about 4-5cm high, which will make vacuuming of big chips difficult. The problem here is that you want it to suck whatever is under the dust shoe, no matter what, otherwise they may partially lift and get stuck between the shoe and the board you are cutting. Let’s say you are cutting a 20mm hole in a straight cut, after the hole is created, you’ll end up having the middle part of it becoming loose (you usually don’t want holding tabs on small cuts because it impacts the finishing quality), a little cylinder of about 15mm diameter. You absolutely need it to be sucked fast, otherwise it will lift partially and the dust shoe will collide with it. It happened to me on the first version I made, which was a bit too high. I got rid of this issue after reducing the height of the shoe.