Natlek - my dust collection is focused around my grinder. Suction below (going to dust deputy with water on bottom and then to vac), and above/behind going through PVC pipe (upper right) feeding a second dust deputy and shop vac. Even then, when working on handles some dust escapes, and to help with that I have a shop filter just out of sight on the floor to the right of the photo.
this photo is just to the left of the grinder: the mini mill will replace the drill press. central space is multi hand-work space (using the porta saw, sanding on a flat plate, tracing profiles, gluing, etc), left of that is the vise (more glue-up, filing, hand sanding whatever). Left of that at the far left of the table is a small space that always gets used to place small hand tools, calipers, etc, etc, etc. just left of that (out of sight) is a small metal storage shelf full of supplies.
The only place on that bench I could place a disk sander is on the far left, which, natlek, is WAY out of reach of my existing dust collection systems.
to the right of the grinder is my lonely old craftsman band saw (which can be hooked up to the second dust deputy/shop vac for dust collection and the floor-rolling shop dust collector:
the only clear option I have thought of is to ditch the craftsman band saw (it has its own problems anyway, but works well enough) and to build a second shelf against the wall behind it. on that shelf put a table mounted bandsaw and add a disk sander there ... but I doubt I will be doing that mod anytime soon (if at all).
Stacy - hopefully the photos help to see that I dont even have room to locate another rolling cart - at least not without creating a tripping hazard....
Stacy - with a combination of the band saw and the grinder, and hand sanding, I have been able to do well enough with scales, but it does take some putzing around and I do not always hit the thickness I would like .... I would just like to better control the actual thickness. Same goes for Wa handles .... but there things have been especially frustrating - going back and forth establishing parallelism on opposite faces (and then getting them flat enough to glue) has come at the cost of, again, putzing around and time taken, but especially at a lack of really hitting the dimensions I want. Take for example the below bolster:
Done with roughing dimensions out on the bandsaw .... I quickly discovered that hitting flat (enough to glue)-and-parallel on the grinder was a lost cause. Hand sanding while often checking face to face dimensions on multiple locations is doable, but slow .... and like I said, often results in not hitting the actual width I want. with multiple components like this, small errors in parallelism add up quickly, so yes, I do want to be able to control to some fairly tight tolerances. In this case, the width of the individual pieces is defined by the "Golden Ratio" ... so there is not a lot of slop before you lose that relative thickness between the pieces. Also, if you do not maintain the parallel between faces - glueing up securely becomes a real problem. I have found that if I establish a good flat, then I can go to a very quick and careful hand sand and get the finish I want without disrupting the flat or losing the face-to-face parallelism.... Maybe with more practice I can get quick at doing all that .... but I just do not have the skill right now.....