First Toy Deliveries of 2019 - 10.30.2019

Five boxes of handmade wooden toys were delivered today to the South Dakota National Guards.  The toys will be given to personnel at their weekend drills held on the first weekend of November at locations all over South Dakota.  This early delivery will give them plenty of time to pack the toys in time for Christmas giving.


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Toy Workshop 10-26-2019 (TWS2019-20)

Toy Workshop 10-26-2019  (TWS2019-20)

Results today:
    Toys completed, packed and sent to inventory: 136
    Total Toys in inventory to date: 136 + 2201 + 5 = 2342

Weather today:  Windy, temperature at game time:  50 degrees with temperatures expected to drop to 38 degrees by noon, and wind gusts up to 45 mph in the afternoon, with snow expected.

The sanding team moved inside to sand and router wheeled toys.

Attendees (21):  Kathie, Bob, Danny, Mary, Paul, Gary, Rollie, Julian, Grant, Patsy, Jerry, Jim, Tony, Rick, Ed, Ralph, Gloria, Steve, John, Harley, and Mary Jo.

Activities today:

    Rough sanding of toys
    Routering of windows and edges of toys
    Gluing hoops to back boards
    Miniature routering of critters
    Cutting CFB PINEWOOD Derby cars to shape on scroll-saws for 2020
    Hand-sanding finished toys (12 more boxes were ready to be sanded at game time)

This photo show boxes that were sealed and/or finished in preparation for this workshop.

Results today:

Four boxes of toys are now ready to be sealed:

Twelve boxes of toys are ready to be spray finished:

Homework this week:

    Rick returned 2 boxes of critters ready for bags.

    Frank took home a box of rabbit toys to sand and router.

    Keith returned a box of wheeled toys ready to be sprayed during the week.

    Danny returned a box of caterpillars and trucks ready to be sealed.

    

 Photos from today's workshop:

 Wheel line did double duty by sanding toys after finishing up wheel installs:

Cutting Love Bugs and CFB Derby blanks

Round over routering of Critters

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Toy Workshop 10-19-2019 (TWS2019-19)

Toy Workshop 10-19-2019

Results today:
    Toys completed, packed and sent to inventory: 0
    Total Toys in inventory to date: 2201

Weather today:  Chilly, windy, temperature at game time:  40 degrees

The sanding team moved inside to sand and router wheeled toys.  Shop vacs were attached to Rigid sanders.  By noon, the temperature was almost decent.

Attendees (20):  Kathie, Bob, Darwin, Ken, Danny, Keith, Paul, Gary, Anthony, Rollie, Don, Frank, Julian, Al, Rick, Ed, Ralph, Gloria, and Mary Jo.

Activities today:

    Rough sanding of toys
    Routering of windows and edges of toys
    Sanding flat sides of back boards
    Spindle sanding of caterpillar edges
    Miniature routering of critters
    Cutting toys to shape on scroll-saws for 2020
    Hand-sanding finished toys (12 boxes were ready to be sanded at game time)

 
Results today:

Four boxes of toys are now ready to be sealed:

Six boxes of toys are ready to be spray finished:

Homework this week:

    Rick took 3-4 boxes of critters home to sand and round over the edges.

    Frank took home box of rabbit toys to sand and router.

    Keith took home a box of wheeled toys to router.

    Danny took home a box of caterpillars to sand with spindle sander.

    

    Lon returned a box of toys earlier in the week, and were sealed before today's workshop.

    

 Photos from today's workshop:

 Wheel line was converted to a sanding line for today:

Cutting Love Bugs and CFB Derby blanks

Round over routering of Critters on second most expensive workbench

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SS SIG 10-17-2019

Scrollsaw Special Interest Group (10-17-2019) at Rick's Shop

Attending (8):  Rollie, Ken, Rick, Harold, Mary, Danny, Darwin, Bob

Activities:

    Scrollsaw 202 Basic tutorials for Harold

    Discussion about the ARK for Noah's Ark project

    Mary passed on box of Soccer Vans ready for sealing/finishing.

Ark Discussions

 

Tutorials on Basic Scrollsawing

Ark Parts

  Rose by Mary Weisbeck cut from one piece of wood (alder)

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RCWA General Meeting 10-14-2019

Just a quick reminder that we will be holding our October General Meeting on Monday Oct 14, 2019 at 7 pm at 910 Wood Ave in Rapid City,SD.

Also, the latest newsletter is available for your reading pleasure on the web:

Newsletters: 2017 - 2018 - 2019 - RCWA005

Welcome to new member Anthony Alfonso!

Welcome to new member Lukasz Stanczyk!

Welcome to new member Keith Nelson!

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Toy Workshop 10-12-2019 (TWS2019-18)

Toy Workshop 10-12-2019 (TWS2019-18)

Attending (17):  Lon, Ken, Don, Al, Rollie, John, Kathie, Bob, Bel, Gloria, Julian, Frank, Ralph, Darwin, Lauree, Ed, Jim

Activities:  

    Cut out Love Bugs (one box full)

    Installed wheels on Ducks, Hippos, Whales, and Amebaes (172)

    Sanded critters

    Cut to shape crayon whales

    Drilled 1/2" holes in backboards

    Sanded toys on 1" belt sander

    Several boxes of blanks were taken by Lon and Ken for homework

Results today:

    Toys completed, packed and sent to inventory: 172 + 40 = 212 

    Total Toys in inventory to date: 1919 + 212 = 2201

During the week of Oct 7:  Rockers were assembled and spray finished by Rick.

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Toy Workshop 10-5-2019 (TWS2019-17)

Toy Workshop 10-5-2019 (TWS2019-17)

Weather today:  Sunny, windy, temperature at game time:  50 degrees

The sanding team braved the winds and set up outside to sand and router wheeled toys.  By noon, the temperature was decent.

Attendees (24):  Harley, John, Bel, Jerry, Patsy, Kathie, Bob, Darwin, Lauree, Jim, Ken, Danny, Mary, Ethan, Tony, Rollie, Don, Julian, Al, Rick, Ed, Lon, Ralph, and Mary Jo.

Activities today:

    Building "new" dog toys with moving ears

    Building flatbed pickup trucks

    Drilling post holes in basketball backboards

    Gluing hoops to backboards

    Installing launchers on basketball bases

    Hand-sanding finished toys ( crayon whales and caravans)

    Installing wheels on wheeled toys

    Installing wheels and Ladders on Fire Trucks

    Miniature routering of critters

    Cutting toys to shape on scroll-saws

    Counting and packaging completed toys and tagging for inventory/storage

Results today:

    Toys completed, packed and sent to inventory: 270 

    Total Toys in inventory to date: 1649 + 270 = 1919

 Photos from today's workshop:

 

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