Saturday, August 26, 2023

Toy Workshop (TWS2023-14). 8.26.2023

We held our fourteenth Toy Workshop (TWS) for 2023 on Saturday August 26 2023, from 9 am to 12.  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.  This was a regularly scheduled Rapid City Woodworkers Association (RCWA) workshop and held on the fourth Saturday of the month.

Attendees (18) included Lon, Al, Ed, Ken, Kathie, Bob, Grant, Darwin, Lauree, Nick, Rick, Keith  John, Rollie, Norma, Denni, Gary,  and Stu.

Today's Activities: 

Activities today included cutting toys to shape using scrollsaws.  Ed and Darwin cut out ears for puppies and dauchsunnds.  Ed shaped the noses of tugboat cabins.  Stu and crew sanded the noses smooth.  

Rollie glued smokestacks in Locomotives.  

John, Keith, and Nick put wheels on numerous toys and rotors on helicopters.  Wheeled vehicles included helicopters (48) airplanes (44) and thin wheeled vehicles (98) for a total of 190 toys to inventory.

Kathie and Norma hand sanded a large number of toys, moving them on to the spraying area at Bob's shop.  Pickups, helicopter rotors, hearts, and two boxes of mixed toys (ICU) are ready to be sealed.  Locomotives are ready to be spray finished.

Lon returned three boxes of toys all cut to shape, routered and sanded (racers, Batman racers, and jeeps)

Ken, Al, and Stu worked on toys outside - routering and sanding the edges of toys.  This included tug boat cabin parts.

Rick, Bob and Lauree expedited the flow of toys around the production line today.  This included trim cutting helicopter rotor pegs to length.

As a result of all previous activities this year with cutting and drilling, we still have a good backlog of rough sanding, routering of edges, and finish sanding left to do.   Several boxes of critters are available for cutting to shape.  So after today, there are four boxes of toys ready for finish spraying. Five boxes of toys are ready to be sealed.












Toys ready to be sprayed



Toys ready for sealing



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Friday, August 25, 2023

Prep for Next Workshop 8.25.2023

 Poly rub on Rocker Parts 8.25.2023








Stack holes on locomotives 8.25.2023





Prep to cut Puppy Ears and Dachsund Ears 8.24.2023



Necklaces for Jewelry Boxes  7.24.2023



Granddaughters helped make the necklaces.






Felt in Jewelry Boxes

Lauree is cutting felt for the Rectangular Jewelry Boxes.



Cabins for Tugboats


Drilling the 15 degree hole for smokestacks.


The cabin's noses will be rounded with belt Sanders and sharp edges rounded over.



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Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Shop Tour - Nick Spano. 8.23.2023

The next event is Wednesday Aug 23, 2023 at 1 pm at Nick Spano's shop in Lead, SD  (11322 Vista Court Lead, SD)

Attendees:  Nick, Susan, Toni, Stu, Al, Kathie, Bob, Ken, Rick, and Jerry

Nick welcomed us to his shop, showed us around and brought us up to speed on the various pieces of equipment he has in his shop and what he uses for different jobs.  He also detailed the acquisition history of several items.

Stu shared his latest CNC carving adventures;  he passed out various bottle stoppers he had carved for people as "door prizes".  Amaxing.

Nick's daughter Toni came to the shop and showed us some blown glass  displays that Nick has been helping her with.  Nick showed us the jig  he uses to cut uniform slots in birch logs to display her hand shaped glass trees.

Then Nick showed us a new item they are developing involving miniature flashimg lights installed in blown glass bulbs (softball size).  They're working on some creative packaging ideas.

Toni offered to host a demonstration of glass blowing at her shop in Deadwood (Mind Blown Studio) sometime later this year when the weather  cools down.  Everyone was very interested in this followup meeting.  (Al especially was taking notes.)

Nick's wife Susan gave us a tour of their new ranch style home and pointed out all the special touches Nick has added.

Shop Notes:  Put Magnets/Magnetic strips near drill press and tool chest; Nick's shop vac dust collection system is very impressive, including his  location of Shop Vac in rafters; some unique high rise storage shelves, shop very well organized, access to tools was super,  cookies were good.  Great tour Spanos!  Thank you!!!



Ranch style home  viewed from Shop



Bottle Stoppers Discussion


Slot cutting Jig for trees


Glass trees


New item


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Monday, August 21, 2023

Wood Stock Move Day. 8.22.2023

Four trailers - nine guys - and two luncheon experts


Move Day was Tuesday Aug 22, 2023 starting about 9 am at the RV Barn.  We moved the wood shelves and the wood for toys to Bob's garage.  We moved the Woodworking Show items to the Wood Shop at 910 Wood Ave.  Some items were shared with Restore.

Summary of the Move

Timeline:

8:50 am Start loading Woodworking Show items
9:15  am Start loading items for Restore
9:30 am WW Show items loaded;  items for Restore loaded
9:30 am  Begin loading Rick's trailer with wood from shelves
9:50 am  Finish loading Rick's trailer;  begin loading Ken's trailer
10:15 am  Finish loading Ken's trailer;  begin loading shelves onto Jim Brown's trailer
10:30 am  Shelves all loaded;  travel to Bob's Shop
11:00 am. Arrive at Bob's Shop;  begin unloading  shelves from Jim Brown's trailer
11:15 am. Put shelves in position in Bob's shop (garage stall #2)
12:30 pm. Finish unloading wood from Rick's trailer and Ken's trailer
12:30 pm. Eat lunch provided by Kathie and Linda

2 pm.  Mission accomplished - a good day's work - thank you all!

Attendees (11):
Al, Rick, Stu, Jerry, Grant, Larry D, Ken, Lon, Bob, Kathie, and Linda D


Photos from Today:



 

Items for WW Show being loaded onto Grant's Trailer







Ready for sharing with RESTORE




Farewell to the RV Barn


Wood stock on trailers



Wood shelves loaded on Jim Brown's trailer being towed by Lon


On the road


Unloading Rick's trailer


Unloading Ken's trailer


Wood stock in new location







For more information, go to www.rapidcitywoodworkers.com.