(For the Press Release announcing the details of our Woodworking Show, click here: https://sdguild-rcwa.blogspot.com/2019/05/ww-show-story-4-27-2019.html )
11th Annual RCWA Woodworking Show - Story with Photos
Dateline: 27 April 2019
Temperature at Showtime: 32 degrees F
The Rapid City Woodworkers Association (RCWA) shared their skills and showed finished art products during their 11th annual Woodworking Show. It was held Saturday April 27, 2019, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Knecht Home Center at 320 West Boulevard in Rapid City. The event was free to the public.
The show featured displays of fine woodworking projects by individual members. The theme for the show was “Anything TRUCKS”. The group showed collections of Old Tools and game tables for kids and adults including marble games, kangaroo races, basketball games, giant and medium JENGA games, and a Love Bug/Delivery Truck race track. There were also live demonstrations of wood turning, scroll sawing, toy-making, and computer controlled routers. Visitors to the show were given the opportunity to receive the free monthly club newsletter as well as lots of door prizes of handcrafted wooden items made by members. In addition, a raffle and silent auction was held for several fabulous wooden items. Proceeds 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 with explanations of how to make wooden toys, how to turn bowls, pens and tops on a lathe, and using a scroll saw to make name signs, bowls, or vases. Interested children received their individual names cut from wood to take home. Kids colored their own delivery trucks, members added wheels, and then the kids tested their new toys on the race track. Members of the RCWA shared tips and advice as well as swapped ideas for techniques and projects from those attending the show.
Many thanks goes out to Rick Weisbeck and all of his supportive friends at Knecht Home Center at 320 West Boulevard near the intersection of Omaha and West Boulevard in Rapid City, SD. Photos of the group’s activities can be seen at www.sdwoodworker.org, under the RCWA blog or directly at: http://sdguild-rcwa.blogspot.com
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NOTE:
CLICK ON ANY PHOTO AT ANYTIME - TO SEE SLIDE SHOW OF PHOTOS.
Attending/Participating (42):
Jerry and Patsy Hood, Mary Jo Anderson, Kathie and Bob Buchanan, Lauree and Darwin Buus, Rick Weisbeck, Cori Weisbeck, Ken and Carol Maron, Ed Pike, Gloria Pike, Ralph and Roberta Brethauer, Dennis Eliason, Julian Wigen, Harley Schmadeke, Paul Douglas, Mary and Grant Coffin, Al Oines, Danny and Mary Green, Jeff and Celi Albrecht, Lon and Vicky Gose, Rollie and Norma Lynde, Tony Verchio, John Wolf, Wes and Kathy Murphy, Jim and Linda Burke, Ethan Burke, Joan Bares, Ken and Ann Froelich, Keith Hoffman, and Dave Dittmer
WELCOME TO THE WOODWORKING SHOW!
WW SHOW THEME: Anything TRUCKS
RCWA TRAVELING DISPLAY CASE
look for single pic of display case here
FRONT ENTRY TABLE
(includes DOOR PRIZES, SIGN-IN, RAFFLE ITEMS, and SILENT AUCTION)
Door Prizes / Sign-up / Registration
Raffle Items
Raffle Winners
Silent Auction
TOY PROGRAM DISPLAY
TOYS MADE FOR 2018 CHRISTMAS TOY PROGRAM
TOY PROGRAM HISTORY – PHOTOS/Trifold Display
SLIDE SHOW - Continuous Loop
TOYMAKING 101 DISPLAY
CLUB DISPLAY – TRUCKS
Located at the middle of the store, three tables were placed to hold members representative theme displays.
OLD TOOLS DISPLAY - LON GOSE brought in three panels of old tools attached to boards for display during the show.
INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS’ DISPLAYS - tables were set up along aisles and walkways in the store to hold members individual displays. Those who brought items for displaying on tables included:
Julian Wigen
Al Oines
Mary and Danny Green
Richard Rasmussen
Ken and Carol Maron
Jim and Linda Burke
Rick Weisbeck
Cori Weisbeck
Bob and Kathie Buchanan
Ed Pike and Gloria Pike
Darwin and Lauree Buus
Grant Coffin
Joan Bares
Jeff Albrecht
John Wolf
Keith Hoffman
Tony Verchio
Jerry and Patsy Hood
Wes Murphy
Dennis Eliason
Ralph Brethauer
Rollie Lynde
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DEMONSTRATIONS - areas/tables were set up to accomodate scrollsaws, lathes, CNC machines, toymaking apparatus, and a Target for the Gatling Gun
WOODTURNING - the woodturning demonstration was set up between the two entry doors.
WOODTURNING LATHE - set on a Grant Coffin built custom table.
DOUBLE POLE SPRING LATHE – set up by JEFF ALBRECHT - no electrical power required.
SCROLLSAWING - tables accomodated 5 scrollsaws, a drill press, a laptop computer and printer, a bandsaw, and portable hand sanders.
The DEWALT Show
TOYMAKING - Three tables accommodated kids coloring delivery trucks, with toymakers installing wheels on the delivery trucks. The race track was the final test.
Jim Neuzil, long time member of the Dakotas Chapter of the Studebaker Drivers Club, and their newsletter editor for many years, dropped by to try his skill at building a delivery truck!
COMPUTER NUMERICALLY CONTROLLED (CNC) ROUTER DEMONSTRATION - RICK WEISBECK placed his CNC router on a movable cart and cleared an area in the shipping/receiving area for the demonstration.
need photo here
GATLING GUN TARGET PRACTICE - was set up in the shipping/receiving area.
GAMES FOR KIDS
An area was prepared for a short legged table for games for kids, including a double marble game, a double basketball game, a tabletop race track, wooden puzzles, a Giant Jenga game, a medium Jenga game, and a full blown 8' 3-track race track.
Luncheon Details
Carol, Kathie, and Celi
