Toy Workshop - Nov 29, 2008

The seventh RCWA toy workshop of 2008 was held at SPLinters at 9 am on Saturday Nov 29th, 2008.

Jig for cutting 2" hole in basketball hoop.

Basketball games recently sanded with 400 grit and now ready for final spray laquer finish.

Harley - putting 3/16" roundover edge on basketball games bases.

Race cars - final spray laquer finish has been applied - cars are ready for kids.

Kathie - brushing sanding sealer on basketball games.

Potential FUTURE product line.

Next toy workshop will be in January 2009. Watch for details.

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Toy Workshop - Nov 22, 2008

The 6th RCWA Toy Workshop of 2008 was held at SPLinters on Nov 22, 2008 from 9 am to noon. We are winding down the major part of our toymaking for this year. The projects we started six weeks ago are nearing completion. Several members are now starting to build and test toys for next year.

This workshop brought the completion of the car line for this year. The last seven cars were sanded in prep for sanding sealer. Thirty race cars were assembled and ready for the final finish coat of spray laquer.

Parts for basketball games were final sanded in preparation for setting up the initial low rate production line run. Twenty three basketball games were assembled by a team of five woodworkers in less than two hours. Due to some parts shortages, we were unable to complete the remaining ten games. This project was very beneficial in learning the challenges of a real production line. Everyone contributed to this project.

Plans for documenting the details of our production processes for each toy type are in the works. This blog will be the media used to record the information.

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Toy Workshop - 15 Nov 2008

The fifth toy workshop of the RCWA was held on Saturday Nov 15th, 2008 at the SPLinters Woodshop. The tractors are all completed, several heart boxes are done, more than 2/3 of the cars are done, and all the basketball game parts are cut out and ready for assembly.

Today, we completed the assembly of 52 cars, completed sanding of 35 racers, and prepared the remainder of the parts for the baskeball game. Six jigs were required to build the basketball game. The last jig was being tested today, in preparation for assembly of the first basketball games later this week.

Ron drilled holes in basketball backboards . . . . Dan routed roundovers on basketball bases.

Rick assembled the last jig (SK106) for basketball game assembly.

Dan edge sanded the basketball bases . . . . . . . Ron and Kathie put wheels on cars.

Gary ( aka SuperSander) does hand sanding on race cars . . . . . . . Ron put wheels on cars.

Kathie prepared cars for final finish . . . . . Dan put roundovers on basketball game parts.

The next toy workshop will be held at Splinters on Nov 22, 2008 from 9 am til done.

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RCWA - November 2008 General Meeting

The November 2008 general meeting of the RCWA was held at SPLinters Woodshop at 7 pm on Nov 10, 2008.

BREAK TIME

SHOW AND TELL/GRINDER JIG PRESENTATION

DEMO OF ONE WAY'S WOLVERINE GRINDING JIG

SHOW AND TELL

ROSEWOOD VALET..................................................... HICKORY/ASH BREADBOARDS

RICK AND ANDY

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Toy Workshop - Nov 8, 2008

TOY WORKSHOP AT SPLINTERS - TOY CAR FABRICATION AND ASSEMBLY

Final assembly of toy cars began on Saturday morning. We completed over 75 cars before running into a weather-induced parts shortage. A shipment of wheels and axles from Casey’s Wood Products, Inc. in Woolwich, Maine was held up in Sioux Falls, SD due to the early winter blizzard in western South Dakota. High winds and deep snow on Thursday caused the closure of I-90 early Thursday and most of the day Friday from Mitchell, SD to the Wyoming border. I-90 is the main transportation corridor from the "east" to western South Dakota.

TOY CAR ASSEMBLY LINE

CAR BODY FABRICATION

TOY CAR BODY SANDING

Rick and Andy prep cars for initial sanding sealer application.

ELF ROGER's WORKSHOP

Heart Box Fabrication and Toy Tractor Product Line Fabrication

Roger worked independently in his workshop this week on a new product line. He has completed the first phase (the low rate initial production phase) of his voluntary contract with a run of 37 heart boxes with sliding lids. Last week he finished up the final group of toy tractors for 2008 with a run of almost 200.

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