for you heavy scrollers out there: do you set up something to catch the dust? If so, what? While I take dust collection very seriously, I've never worried about it on my scroll saw....mostly because I just don't use it that much. But this morning I was doing a piece that takes a little more sawing than usual, and noticed there was very fine dust particles being blown all over. So I thinking I want to do something, just haven't got any ideas on the best approach. I guess I could just set my vac hose under the table, but I'd still have the surface dust to deal with.

Fred my scroll saw does a good job of blowing the dust away from the blade and blows the dust to the right side. I keep a box fan with a good filter attached to the intake side of the fan to catch the flying dust...and it sits touching my right knee. I keep all the used furnace filters from the house to reuse in my shop. I never was a fan of the hanging expensive fans they sell for I always thought the dust falls to the floor so I have three of the 20 dollar box fans sitting around where dust is made in the shop and it seems to work along with the big unit that sits in the big part of the shop that blows it all outside...And if you want to get fancy build a little slide in area for the filter which makes it much better to change filter in front of the box fan. A person can buy the stand Dewalt sells for their scroll saws but three legged and a person would have to stand up to use their set up and I don't think I would have ever lasted very long if I had to do stand and saw.. I built a table 20" tall for the saw which is a perfect height for the office chair I use on rollers for I wheel back and forth to the little flat area where I do my carving. The saw is not bolted to the table and the saw sits on some car tire tube pieces...  Also if the scroll saw is bolter to the table and you want to cut something three of four foot long then something is always in the way either over to the left or to the right side of the saw.  And with it just sitting there I can slide the saw one way and then the other for long items. I like the Dewalt for I can stand a dime up on the table while the saw is running. Some saws you can't do that even some Dewalts.

  this area I use is close to the corner of the shop so I saved a small computer fan that is about a foot higher than the table and the fan pushes the carving dust away from me towards the box fan which runs all the time.

   I don't know how anyone buys their furnace filters but HD sells a large package at a bargain each year so we get the best they sell and I reuse them in the shop plus one is attached to the front of the biggest window unit they sell so I keep lots of clean filters ready.

  Now, when I am carving with the power tools I go the extra mile kinda for some of the little 1/8" bits can grind away wood faster than can thought of so I add the screaming Sears large shop vac with the hose intake end just a foot or so from me on top of the table and it runs any time I am carving....And here is the only time I wear the ear muffs for one usually thinks a train is coming in to my shop...

  The little hose built on the saw only blows the dust away that comes out the top of the piece of wood a person is sawing where most of the dust the scroll saw makes comes out the bottom side of the wood and is piled up under the table and  I keep the different  colors of woods in different jars so when I need to patch large holes or gaps I can mix that same wood with the glue. No it don't make it disappear but it makes me happier to get the patch closer to the right color.

Great reply, Harry.  Love the ideas.  As for me I have a small fan that blows across the top of the table and a large box fan blowing lower AND a JET Air Filtration system up higher catching the stuff that goes airborne.