We held our fifth Toy Workshop (TWS) for 2024 on Saturday March 9, 2024, from 8:30 to 11:00 am. 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 March 2024 General Meeting was held from 11:00 am to noon.
We have all the cars (2x4 stock) traced, including the love bugs. Darwin and Tony cut some toys to shape on scroll saws. Jim Brown drilled axle holes. Al, Roy, and Russ worked on airplanes -- 50 are completed and inventoried. Rick repaired the bandsaw.
The attendees at today's workshop (15) included Harley, Julian, Keith, Stu, Lon, Rick, Lauree, Darwin, Al, Grant, Jim Brown, Russ, Tony, Mary Jo, and Roy.
Cori, Don, Mary C and Dave Maude joined us for the meeting at 11 am.
Photos from the event:
March General Meeting
RCWA Meeting Minutes
Date: March
9, 2024 Meeting Start:
11:00 Meeting Finish:
12:00
Attendees:
Keith Brink, Jim
Brown, Darwin Buus, Lauree Buus, Mary Coffin, Lon Gose, Dave Maude,
Al Oines, Don Roberts, Harley Schmadeke, Russell Stueckrath, Tony
Verchio, Rick Weisbeck, Cori Weisbeck, Julian Wigen
Introductions/
New Members:
No new members or guests
attended today's meeting.
Treasurer’s
Report:
RCWA $2,252.75 for craft parts
(wheels, axels, etc.) in March 2024. We earned $1.24 interest in
checking and $0.02 interest in savings. Current balances are
Checking $3,597.83
Workshop $1,550.00
Savings $
331.89
Total $5,479.72
We received a $440 donation
from church in Pennsylvania as a result of Jerry and Patsy’s toy
reach out there.
Shop
Tours
Al Oines reported no shop
tours or events are schedule at this time.
Special
Interest Groups
Next Scroll Saw SIG is
scheduled for March 21 at Rick Weisbeck’s home (6704 Kimberly
Drive, Blackhawk) from 1:00-3:00 p.m. Will be working on compound
cut for nativity scene and sleighs.
Turning SIG is scheduled for
March 27 1:00-3:00 at Brown’s home (2878 Spotted Fawn Lane, Rapid
City).
General
Meeting
Next general meeting will be
April 8, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. Note we are returning to Monday evenings
for the summer operations.
Other
Topics
Tool sale will be June 15.
Rick will again be seeking
volunteers to help with pinewood derby cars April 12th
and 13th.
Tony will bring his sander. Rick and Cori will bring scroll saws.
Cori Weisbeck has set up a
feedback mechanism for community requests to
connect members with community members’ making requests for
assistance, etc. Please contact Cori to provide skill
sets. A column has been added to the member rosters to include skill
sets as well.
Wood
Show
The Wood Show is set for the third Saturday in April (April 20). The theme is
Christmas in April. Set up is scheduled after 4:00 p.m. on Friday
April 19. If you can’t be there Friday, let Rick know so we can
reserve a space for you. Remember to bring your name tag for your
display area. We will meet Friday afternoon at shop to load the
trailer, and unload on Sunday.
Rick Weisbeck reported he is
making approx. 50 racing sleighs and Keith Brink is making a Santa
driver to be installed in each one (see show and tell picture for
example).
Lon Gose will bring old tools
and tool display.
Jim Burke will set up the
slide show again for this year.
Discussion for better
management of the Silent Auction was held. In the past, more items
were brought than originally planned, which is a good thing, but
planning in advance would make management easier.
Discussion on the Lathe demo
was held. Dave Maude suggested that a focused approach to items being
turned would make the set-up process easier. It was also suggested,
since only one lathe is on site, that a schedule is made for the
turning demos and the person demonstrating.
Mary Coffin has identified
areas for posters to be hung first or second week in April. Please
take a stack if you willing to help distribute. Mary Coffin will do
the tri-fold as well as send an announcement to RCJ. Cori will do
Craig’s list and facebook. Mary will contact the tv station for
coverage. Cori and Rick will make CNC signs for indoor use. Maybe
we make sandwich boards and 2-3 hangar flags for outdoor use. Cori
showed a banner example that can be purchased for around $40.
We will continue to do door
prizes which will be held every 15 minutes or so. The club is
looking for additional items for door prizes. Al will coordinate
raffle. Need 8 raffle prizes. Lauree and Darwin, tic tac toe game
for raffle. Stu will contribute a half dozen wine stoppers for
either the raffle or door prizes. Rick will donate a cradle and
Kathy a quilt for the raffle.
Patsy and Cori will coordinate
silent auction. Nick will have a cutting board. Stu will donate an
inside-out ornament with stand and a bowl or vase of some sort. The
Nativity set will be donated by Scroll Saw SIG group. We will try to
get a complete list of items for both the raffle and the silent
auction at the April meeting.
Scroll saw demonstrations:
let us know who is interested in doing scroll saw demonstrations.
Rick will bring his CNC and
gattling gun.
Patsy, Kathy, and Mary Jo will
coordinate lunches. Please bring some $$ for lunch donations next
meeting.
A friendly reminder that this
is not a sale. It is only a show. We cannot sell items within
Knecht’s during the show without running into legal problems with
sales tax.
Please commit to stay until
4:00 on Saturday.
Jerry will bring in Christmas
tree that we have at the Christmas party for hanging ornaments.
Toy
program
Next Toy Workshop will be
Saturday, March 23, 2024.
Jerry Hood is working on a new
toy motor boat while in Florida.
All toys, except critters, are
traced.
Cutting will start at next
meeting and depending on weather, cutting, routing and sanding can
begin outside.
If you know someone who wants
toys, we have an application for toys on the RCWA website.
Wood
Recovery Project
Tite Bond sent 5 cases of
glue. Please send them a short note of thanks accessible from web
site.
Show
and Tell
Rick
brought in the nativity scene. Rick also brought in a scroll saw man
with birds and Santa’s sleigh. Pictures follow:
Minutes
taken by Stu Kellogg
For more information, go to www.rapidcitywoodworkers.com.
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