SS SIG 1-16-2020

The Scroll Saw Special Interest Group (SS SIG) was held at 7 pm at Rick's Shop on Thursday 1-16-2020.  Attendees (10):  Danny, Mary, Darwin, Ken, Rollie, Harley, Bob, Kathie, Jim, and Rick.

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Tonight’s discussions covered ideas about Things that Fly for the upcoming Woodworking Show as well as detailed Show and Tell verbiage about building a very sophisticated Ferris Wheel.  The Santa and Reindeer in a decorative protective box were also discussed and reviewed extensively.

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Toy Workshop 2-8-2020 (TWS2020-03)

It was a busy day today, with lots of activity.  Temperatures were in the teens at the start of the workshop, but reached 40 degrees by mid day.  Members Attending: 28

Activities today:

Sanding puppy ears (80)

Tracing more toys/cutting/packing

Drilling axle holes

Drilling starter holes for scrollsawers

Drilling windows with new Forstner bits

Sanding blocks for block bags

Cutting Turtle Banks with scroll saws

Packed up 45 critter bags ready for inventory, and one block bag.

Ken brought in a box of toys ready for sealing. Rollie brought in a box of cutout critters, ready to sand and router.  Rollie also brought back about 100 tugboat hulls rough cut and ready for sanding.  

Rick finished an inventory of the toys remaining from last year.  This will be put into the tally along with new toys ready for inventory.  Rick returned a box of critters all sanded, and routered, and ready to go into cloth bags.

Rick cut the centers out of the turtle banks with a hole saw last week at his shop.  Rick and Ed cut all the turtle banks to shape today.  Rick took them home to continue working on them, getting them ready for circular Plexiglas windows.

Dale from Dale's Electric wired up a 220 plug in the new garage, so we are getting closer to our goal of planing wood in the garage.  Last week, Bob and Rick built an adapter to catch the sawdust for our Club Planner.  A few more items are needed and then we will be ready to plane some wood for the rest of our toys.  

Our traced toys count is 1498, with 182 more wheeled toys traced today.  This is 62% of the total number of traceable toys to be traced for 2020.

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Toy Workshop (TWS2020-02) 1-25-2020

Attendees (24):
Grant, Al, Ken, Lon, Danny, Bel, Mary, Ralph, Don, Julian, Harley S, Ed, Rick, Tony V, Antonio, Keith, Harley P, Richard, Rollie, Frank, Kathie, Bob, Mary Jo, Gary G.

Activities:

Tracing critters, cutting critters, tracing tugboat hulls, Tracing Wheeled toys, packing, labeling blanks, drilling windows and starter holes for scrollsawing.

Stats:
    Toy making goal for 2019:  2800
    Toys traced today: 469
    Total 2020 toys traced to date:  1206

A great start to 2020, with another 469 of the (traceable) toys traced, boxed, and labeled today!  Once again, several of the boxed blanks were taken home with members to work on in their own shops.

A New Set of Critters for 2020

  

Members in Attendance:

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Thank You Notes from YFS and Club for Boys

Several Thank You Notes were received from the YFS and from the Club for Boys.  Here are a few of them:

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January General Meeting 1-13-2020

We will be having our January General Meeting on Monday evening, Jan 13, 2020 at the Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Rapid City at 7 pm.

Photos from Show and Tell

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Toy Workshop 1-11-2020 (TWS2020-01)

Just a reminder that we will have our first toy workshop of the year on Saturday morning - January 11, 2020, from 9 am to noon at the Club for Boys.  We'll be tracing and starting to build toys, so bring sharp pencils, awls, miter saws, scrollsaws and drill presses.
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Attendees (20): Danny and Mary Green, Rick Weisbeck, Bob and Kathie Buchanan, Jerry and Patsy Hood, Lauree and Darwin Buus, Harley Schmadeke, Ed Pike and Gloria Pike, Rollie Lynde, Don Roberts, Al Oines, Lon Gose, Grant Coffin, Julian Wigen, Jim Burk, and Tony Verchio.



Activities:
Tracing, cutting, packing, labeling blanks

Stats:
Toy making goal for 2019:  2800

Toys traced today:  587 Toys at TWS;  150 airplanes traced by Rick at home.   Total:  737 toys

A great start to 2020, with 737 of the (traceable) toys traced, boxed, and labeled today!  Several of the boxed blanks were taken home with members to work on in their own shops.

Photos from the workshop:

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