I’m on the fence about sound enclosures. I like the look of them. I like the dust containment, beyond what the dust collector can suck up.
My challenge is in fact, sound.
I have a tendency to listen closely to the sound of the router/bit and may speed up or slow down based on what is happening with the cut at the moment.; ie, binding up or seeming to bog down, etc.
Sooooo…those of you who have really built some nice looking units and reduced the sound level significantly, do you have any challenge with the sound of the router having cutting issues or decisions to speed up the cut? Have you made adjustments to how you listen to the unit or just let it go as initially set up?
Just trying to decide if putting the work in will be a problem or just an adjustment to what sounds to listen for??
I’ve not got a sound enclosure (yet!) but I’m thinking the pros outweigh the cost.
If anything I’d say that monitoring and adjusting so finely should be avoided. Getting your recipes for you common materials dialed in should make that kind of adjusting on the fly ~unnecessary.
If you’ve got things dialed in then maybe just being a little less aggressive so you don’t feel like you have to babysit would be worthwhile
And it you’re worried about cuts taking too long and going into the night, we’ll you won’t have to worry once it’s nice and quiet
Thanks for the input. Not sure I want to ever leave a piece of machinery running without being somewhere close. As for adj. speed/feed, when cutting thick boards I find that there can be a lot of differences in how the router cuts. I guess I could just slow it down and use the provided speed/feed based on the tool selection, but that does seem to make for very long cutting.
The cost doesn’t come into play for me, just the sound issue.
