WT SIG 4.24.2024

The Wood Turning Special Interest Group (WT SIG) was held on April  24,  2024.

All RCWA members and guests are welcome to attend.  It is on the calendar for the last Wednesday of each month at 1 pm. It is held in Jim and Maggie’s Shop at 2879 Spotted Fawn Lane, Rapid City, SD 57702.

Thank you to Maggie and Jim for hosting and preparing today's Woodturning SIG.  

Attending:

Steve, Dave, Al, Maggie, Jim Brown, Ken, Michael,  Bob, and Kathie.

Today's SIG was a planning session for the rest of the year around Jim's new dining room table.

Here are the plans for the rest of the year.

There was Show and Tell items shown and discussed.

Photos from SIG:

Tall segmented Bowl made by Steve.

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16th Annual Woodworking Show 4.20.2024

 

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Setup for 16th Annual WWShow 4.19.2024

 

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SS SIG 4.18.2024

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RCWA Assists Rangers with Pinewood Derby 4.12.2024 and 4.13.2024

 A few RCWA members spent Friday evening and Saturday morning at the Assembly of God church on Highway 16 assisting members of the Rangers building each Ranger's pinewood derby race car.  After the RCWA members assisted with shaping and sanding the cars, the kids painted their vehicles and added weight to their car in preparation for the race next weekend.

Members assisting today included Rick, Cori, Stu, and Tony.  A great video showing the event in progress can be seen by clicking on the link below:

Video from Today's Event

Photos from today's event:

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Toy Workshop (TWS2024-07) 4.13.2024

 

We held our seventh Toy Workshop (TWS) for 2024 on Saturday April 13, 2024, from 9:00 to 12:00 am.  This was held at the Wood Shop at 910 Wood Ave in Rapid City.  The shop is in the basement of the annex to Our Redeemer Lutheran Church.

It was a warm day with 80 Degrees expected by noon.  We worked outside with sanders, routers, and a bandsaw today.    

The attendees at today's workshop (16) included Harley, Julian, Keith, Lon, Ken, Ed, Cleon. Nick, Lauree, Darwin, Al, Don, Jerry and Patsy, Rick, Joseph, Kathie and Bob.

Ed brought in two boxes of toys cut and ready for sanding, routering, etc.  Ed also took a couple of boxes of blanks home to work. Activities today included sanding, routering, bandsawing and scrollsawing toys to shape, drilling windows and axle holes in toys, handsanding critters, and gluing tops of cabins to bottoms of cabins, then tracing the shape on the cabins. 

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Orange County Woodworkers Toy Workshop April 6, 2024 Anaheim, CA

 Bob,   As you requested, attached are ten photos I took at our most recent toy workshop party.  Hopefully they are still attached when you get this email.  Let me know if they didn’t all make it, and I’ll re-send them in smaller groups.  Hopes things are well with you.

 Regards,     --Alfred J. Missbrenner    m: 562-652-5876

Ed Smet’s keepsake boxes, and his team.

Earl Horstman and assistant adding wheels to his simplified race car.

Grasshoppers 

Logging trucks.

Assembling the Boogie Coaster, car and its track.

A new design, of a 2-seat flivver (needs wheels).

From stair handrail to steam locomotive.

Attaching legs to the articulated frog.

 Attaching wheels to a dump truck.

A big wheels type monster truck. We typically give just one to each organization.

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