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Everything looks good. Can't wait to see the finished project. Try making some plastic curtains and hang them up to make a spray booth, or just cover the equipment with plastic. Good luck.
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I'm not sure about overspray, but I've done the opposite, kept the dust out, away from my workpiece.

I was finishing the top of a coffee table with epoxy and my entire shop was covered with sawdust. I'm REALLY particular about finishing in a dust free environment, but didn't want to stir up the dust by sweeping it all up. First, I took the umbrella from our table on the deck and hung it from the cieling in the shop. Next, I found some really old bedsheets and a few other things and hung them from the under edge of the umbrella. I folded them over a the sides and used clothes pins to pin them all together and effectively I created a (more or less) dust free zone. I then finished it and it came out crystal clear.

Perhaps something similar to that might help keep the spray off of everything else? (If that is what you're worried about) Hope this helps. They're looking great so far. Good luck!

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If you are using the HVLP gun and you set it right, you should have MINIMAL overspray and should be able to spray it in your shop with out issue.

My suggestions is to do this:
Set up your gun and put the finish in it.
Turn the pressure down to say 50 lbs from the compressor
Close all the adjustments on the gun itself
Set the air pressure on the gun to about 40 lbs (if it has one, if not adjust the compressor down)
Open the air adjustment until you start to get a decent amount of air through
Open the fluid/needle until it starts to spray
Play with the two adjustments until you get a good finish
turn down the air adjustment until the finish starts looking bad
turn the air adjustment up until the finish looks good. You will have some orange peel look on waterbased, but I find it levels out pretty well quickly
Start spraying. Overspray on HVLP is really quite small, but still wear a respirator and use a box fan to vent out a door or window some.

YMMV, but I spray in my shop with no worries of overspray whatsoever anymore. When I used to use a high pressure gun it got EVERYWHERE and I had to mask off the entire room to keep the overspray off of stuff.
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