We held our 9th Toy Workshop (TWS) for 2022 on Saturday June 11, 2022, from 9 to noon. 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.
The attendees at today's workshop (22) included Grant, Al, Ken, Rick, Harley, Russ Stueckrath, Bob, Kathie, Jerry, Patsy, Gary Graves, Bel, Jim Burk, Julian, John, Stu, Tony, Lon, Ed, Denni, Bob and Kathie.
Patsy H and Gary G brought in handcrafted cloth bags for critters. Ed, Ken, and Lon brought in boxes of toys they cut, sanded, and drilled in their home workshops.
Today we continued drilling axle holes, drilling windows using Forstner bits, cutting toys to rough shape, sanding and routering. There were three people cutting on scrollsaws, and one on the bandsaw. There was handsanding of 2 boxes of toys that had been sealed with shellac, as well as handsanding of blocks for block bags. There was power sanding and round over routering under the canopy outside in 84 degree weather.
Several members took home traced toys to work on at home. This included Keith Brinks and Ken. Rick took home a box of whales to install a reinforcing dowel in the tail before cutting to shape. Rick installed a lifting arm on the new DeWalt scrollsaw. Bob shared an auction treasure from the previous Saturday's live aucion. So, a new tool was added to our inventory today, A slightly used DW788 scroll saw complete with a stand on wheels, with an extension cord and magnifying light. Rick checked it out and gave it the okay for use.
At the end of the day, there were 4 boxes of toys ready to be sealed and two boxes ready to finish sprayed. There were 160 toys sporting the new orange pegs selected for all 2022 toys, and placed into inventory as the first group of wheeled toys completed for 2022.
We did some housekeeping today by moving the leftover 2x stock and some 1" critter stock into a small closet under the stairs. Then we set up tables and saw horses in the small room adjacent to our tool storeroom. We plan to locate the Work in Process (WIP) items in this room to avoid the log jambs in the tool storage room. Lastly we setup an 8' heavy duty table in the main work area, replacing a sawhorse-and-plywood work area.
Photos from the workshop:
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