October 2012 GENERAL MEETING

The meeting of the RCWA for October 2012 is planned for Oct 8, 2012 at 7 pm at 910 Wood Ave in Rapid City, SD.

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Toy Workshop Oct 6, 2012

We continued our marathon of Toy Workshops this weekend with another gathering at the RCWA Workshop in the basement of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church at 910 Wood Ave in Rapid City at 9 am on Saturday Oct 6, 2012.

This Saturday, eight individuals braved the first snowfall of the year and came out to make toys.   Tasks included drilling helicopter axle holes, sanding airplanes, assembling wheeled vehicles, taking inventory of items that have been completed and readied for the storeroom, gluing up helicopter rotors, assembling helicopters, assembling turtle banks, and receiving completed items.  A team of three assembled wheeled vehicles.  Once again, members took boxes of toys home to work on in their shops.

Attendeess included Lon, Larry, Bel, Kathie, Harley, Frank, Rick, Gary Graves, and Bob.

A total of 303 toys were inventoried and placed in the storeroom including small cars, racers, oldies, buses, turtle banks, helicopters, and airplanes. 

The next workshop is planned for October 13, 2012.

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Toy Workshop Sept 29, 2012

Beginning this Saturday and continuing every weekend until Dec 1, 2012, we will hold a Toy Workshop at the RCWA Workshop in the basement of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church at 910 Wood Ave in Rapid City.

This Saturday, eleven individuals arrived to tackle the tasks at hand.  Tasks included driling axle holes, drilling windows, drilling eyes on critters, sanding cars and critters, taking inventory of items that have been completed and readied for the storeroom.  A team of six assembled wheeled vehicles. Holes for helicopter rotors were drilled, and tugboat completion plans put in place.  Many members took boxes of toys home to work on in their shops including routering edges, cutting vehicles from stock, sealing and finishing with lacquer.  Other items which had been completed at home in the previous weeks were exchanged including plexiglass circles blanks for turtle banks, tugboat cutouts, tugboat cabin parts, airplane fuselages, finished wheels and painted axles, and critter cutouts.

Attendeess included Lon, Julian, Larry, Bel, Ron, Kathie, Harley, Frank, Rick, Steve, Darwin and Bob.

A total of 404 toys were inventoried and placed in the storeroom;  these included small cars, racers, sedans, oldies, buses, locomotives, and jewelry boxes.

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RCWA General Meeting - September 10, 2012

The September 2012 general meeting was held on September 10th, 2012 at 910 Wood Ave at 7 pm. Minutes of the meeting follow:

The lack of a formal meeting space or structure to have it in made for an interesting get-together of the wood workers of Rapid City.

At 6:45 pm, the secretary drove up and parked in front of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church to find several other members under the awning in front of the building.  As I approached the group, Vice President Weisbeck was explaining that the furniture inside the building was gone and that the carpet was all wet.  They had just cleaned all of the carpets in the building.  Later others came and the meeting place problem was passed on as they arrived.

The building was locked up again and there were discussions of agenda items under the awning, while it started to sprinkle.  So some left, few decisions were made, and a few members visited for about an hour and 30 minutes.   [The main topic for this meeting was planning for the "end of summer" family picnic and preparing for the effort to complete toys for the upcoming Christmas season.]  

In short, the meeting didn't start and was finished quickly.

Harley Schmadeke, Secretary

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SHOP TOUR - July 28, 2012 at Black Hills School of Woodworking

The Shop Tour for July was a trip to the Black Hills School of Woodworking located in Belle Fourche on July 28, 2012.  The tour was hosted by owners John and Meg English.  A majority of the members attended and enjoyed the gallery, the shop, the lathe room, and the retail store.  Here are photos from the tour:

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July 14, 2012 Toy Making Workshop

The RCWA Toymakers met on Saturday morning July 14, 2012,  from 9 am til noon at the RCWA Shop at 910 Wood Avenue in Rapid City, SD.

Kathie put sealer on toys the day before to prepare for the workshop.

Lon Gose finished up several boxes of vehicles by drilling 7/32” axle holes. 

Kathie and Bel did final sanding on a large group of helicopters.

Darwin stuffed peg board (jigs) with axles in preparation for painting.

Rick Weisbeck demonstrated his slick new wheel spraying assistant.

Activities at the July 14th workshop were performed by six members who worked on drilling axle holes for wheeled vehicles, spraying sealer on wheels, painting axles, and second sanding on soon to be wheeled vehicles.  Many members took home boxes of wood to finish in their workshops/garages.  Members participating in this month’s workshop included Rick, Lon, Darwin, Bel, Kathie and Bob.

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July 9, 2012 RCWA General Meeting

The July 2012 general meeting was held at the Our Redeemer Lutheran Church on July 9th, 2012. 

The main item for discussion was whether to take a month off during the Motorcycle Rally - which was an easy decision.  Then we did our Show and Tell to share current projects with other members.







 

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