The Seventh Annual
Woodworking Show sponsored by the RCWA was held on May 9, 2015 from 9 am
until 4 pm . The event was hosted by the Knecht
Home Center Rapid City , SD.
Rick Weisbeck, our in-store coordinator, set up one of our
RCWA Display cases in the store the week before the show to give store
customers a preview of the coming event.
On Friday evening, May 8th, members arrived to help Rick set up the
central area of the store for the show.
Chairs and tables were setup and tablecloths placed in preparation for
member’s woodworking display items.
Equipment to be used for the scroll sawing, woodturning, and toy making
demonstrations was unloaded and put in place. Early Saturday morning, signs made by Gary
Graves were placed by Gary Kohama at strategic locations around the Knecht
Home Center West Blvd. By show time at 9:00
am on Saturday, the stage was set and the Show began. Members spent many enjoyable hours during the
previous year, cutting, building, and finishing the projects that were brought
together to share at the show.
The show featured displays of fine woodworking projects by
individual members as well as group displays.
The group displays highlighted collections of Old Tools, Wooden Games,
and Catapults. . There were live
demonstrations of woodturning, scroll sawing, toy-making, a CNC router and a
Gattling Rubber Band Gun. Visitors to
the show registered for a monthly club newsletter and various door prizes of
donated wooden items hand-made by members. A raffle was held for several select
wooden items. Any proceeds from the raffles will be used to buy supplies for
the RCWA’s Toy Making Program for less fortunate children in the Black
Hills .
Woodworking demonstrations included several projects. The demonstrators explained how to make
wooden toys and boxes, turned bowls and pens on a lathe, and make names by
cutting wood using a scroll saw.
Interested children were given their individual names cut from wood to
take home. Visitors were invited to help
sand toy parts. Members of the RCWA were
available to share advice as well as swap ideas for techniques and projects
from those attending the show.
For a full report – see the separate document entitiled
“Supplement to JUNE 2015 - THE CUTTING EDGE .pdf
which will soon be on the web site. More pictures
and stories are found on our website blog:
http://sdguild-rcwa.blogspot.com/.
(NOTE: the supplement was Overcome By Events (OBE) and does not appear on this blog.)
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