Wood Duster Shop Vac Demo & Review 

Let me say this, I have used everything from large multi bag dust collection systems to exterior mounted cyclone systems, to a shop vac and a hose so I have some knowlede of how they compare. This is not meant to replace a large dust collection system in a commercial shop. But I will say this, its pretty handy and I do enjoy using it when doing small projects around my home shop.

As it comes out of the box the Wood Duster is set up to be a vac that lets you sweep your wood shavings and floor dust directly into its opening and its gone as simple as that.  As far as that is concerned it works perfectly. Its not quite strong enough to suck up heavy nails and chunks of wood but for wood dust and shavings it works perfectly.

It also comes with a very long 25' hose that attaches in place of the front sweeping panel.  This is the one place the Wood Duster could use some improvement.  It would be much more useful if I did not have to tip the unit on its site to get that panel off to plug in the hose.  There really needs to be a secondary door on the front of the panel that lets you push the hose right through the panel and there fore bypass it with out having to remove the panel.  
But even with that said its still a very useful tool.

I was recently installing a few hundred feet of crown molding. I don't know about you but when I do crown molding I make lots of cuts.  I had the wood duster hose attached to my dewalt 12" chop saw and every time i had to make a cut I would simply step on the super handy foot switch, make my cut then tap the switch again to turn it off.  So much better than bending down and looking for the switch to my Rigid shop vac.

The Wood Duster is also quite a bit quieter than my Rigid Shop Vac.  

A few other nice features:

The foot operated lid that exposes a simple garbage can.
The easily removable vacuum bag. (although its a bit small)
The good suction

Overall I do enjoy using the Wood Duster Vac.  I'll keep using it and update this review after a few months of use to see how it holds up.

The wood Duster is available at http://www.stylevac.com/forthewoodshop.aspx