Toy Workshop on Saturday 3-22-2014

All - just a reminder that we will be having a toy workshop from 9 am to noon on Saturday March 22nd, 2014, at the Club for Boys Shop.   If you have any spring clamps with at least a 1 1/2 " capacity please bring them, as we can use them for making tugboat cabins.  Hope to see you there!   Bob B 

A Toy Workshop was held at the CLUB for BOYS shop on Saturday March 22nd, 2014 from 9 am to noon.  Just for all you guys from Tustin, CA, who are having trouble remembering why you moved from Minnesota a few decades ago, the temperature here in the banana belt of the Sunshine State at Game Time today was +4.6 degrees F.

Attendees (9) included Julian Wigen, Frank DiCesare, Rollie Lynde, Greg Todd, Richard Rasmussen, Steve Larson, Kathie and Bob Buchanan and Ken Wright.

The effort to complete 400 race cars for the Club for Boys for 2014 (CFB Cars - 4 configurations of Racers) continued as we began cutting out the vehicles on the bandsaw in preparation for a spring derby (MAY) at the Club for Boys.  Soon the boys will complete the finishing and personalizing touches to their own race cars.

We began assembling the cabin for the tugboat cabins this morning.  Bob cut the pieces this week, and Richard, Rollie, Frank and Greg glued them together.  Frank traced the shape of the cabin fronts, in preparation for the next step of rounding the cabins.  Then a 1" hole will be drilled at a 5 degree angle to hold  the stacks.  The stacks are made from 1" dowels donated by Magnum Enterprises.  They are about 2" long and are hollowed using a 5/8" Forstner bit in a clamping jig on the drill press.

  

Julian and Kathie sorted about 20 boxes of the traced items by categories and window sizes to make it easier to do a production run on the window drilling operations. 

Then Julian, Rollie, Greg and Steve worked on completing windows in the helicopters and pickups.  Various sizes from 3/4" to 1 5/8" holes were drilled using the bench top drill presses.

All that drilling leaves a lot of chips, so Ken "chipped in" and helped with cleanup at the end of the workshop.

Frank added wheels to a few racers that Gary Graves completed earlier in the year to add the first new cars to the inventory for 2014.

Mary Jo Anderson shared her 1950's Hubley Bell Telephone Toy Truck No. 504 complete with tools, trailer, and pole.  Frank will do a plan drawing of it, so that we can evaluate the possibility of building a prototype Telephone Truck for the Toy Program.

   

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Shop Tour - Rollie Lynde Shop - March 15th, 2014

Shop Tour - Rollie's Shop - Saturday March 15th - 10 am

On a cold day in March, a number of members of the RCWA descended on Rollie's shop to talk tools, tactics, and techniques of Woodworking.  Rollie had the shop nicely heated and ready for visitors.

Attendees included Rick Weisbeck, Darwin Buus, Richard Rasmussen, Larry Borg, Bob and Kathie Buchanan, and Dean (woodworker friend of Rollie's), and Rollie and Norma Lynde.  Norma served coffee and hot home-made caramel rolls after the shop talk was done.

Shop tour started in the shop on the back side of the house and continued to the storage sheds in the back yard.

Rollie demonstrated all his crafty devices including his shop vac with remote that he connects to all power tools on the workbench, and his tip for chip collection at the drill press using spring clips and a 32 gallon garbage sack.  The new DeWalt scrollsaw certainly got a few looks as well.  The fireplace in the rear corner of the shop serves to help with wood disposal as well as keep the shop nice and toasty on a cold spring day.

Thanks for hosting Rollie and thank you Norma for the tasty treats!

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General Meeting of RCWA 3.10.2014

General Meeting Monday March 10th  - 7 pm at 910 Wood Ave in Rapid City.

To catch up on all the happenings at the March 2014 meeting of the Rapid City Woodworkers Association, click on the following link for meeting minutes:

https://sites.google.com/site/rcwa004/meetingminutes/meeting-minutes---2014 

Show and Tell Items presented at the meeting included some ideas on helicopter building, a superb example of a natural edge scroll sawn model of a nativity scene, more prototype toys including road graders, porcupines and firetrucks, a MOXON VISE built from Walmart dumbbell handles with ACME threaded bolts and nuts, and a jumping moving Kangaroo model.

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Toy Workshop March 8, 2014

All - Just a reminder that we will be having a Toy Workshop on Saturday morning March 8th  - 9 am to noon at the Club for Boys Shop.  Hope to see you there!

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A Toy Workshop was held at the CLUB for BOYS shop on Saturday March 8th, 2014 from 9 am to noon.

Attendees (15) included Lon Gose, Julian Wigen, Frank, Rick Weisbeck, Levi Woodard, Gary Graves, Larry and Barbara Borg,  Bel Felix, Rollie Lynde, Greg Todd, Darwin Buus, Richard Rasmussen, and Kathie and Bob Buchanan.

We have now completed all tracing of toys planned for 2014.  We traced tractor parts, tugboat hulls, 4WD Pickups, paddle games, and animals for critter bags.  As we noted last time, there are still lots of toys to build, but the tracing effort is pretty much behind us.

The effort to complete 400 race cars for the Club for Boys (CFB Cars - 4 configurations of Racers) continued as we cut the vehicles previously traced on long 2x4s into smaller pieces; and then boxed them up in preparation for cutting them on the bandsaw and scrollsaws into the rough form for the boys.  Later this year, the boys will complete the finishing and personalizing touches to their own race cars.

 The total number of toys traced during today's workshop was 252 toys, bringing the total number of toys in work since our first workshop on January 11th to 1,681 toys.  This is very good for this time of the year!

Details of efforts:
Rick, Richard, and Larry formed the team that was working on the CFB cars.  Frank, Julian, Greg and Levi drilled holes in the Hills Alive cars.  Bel traced the new 4 Wheel Drive pickups, and helped Darwin drill axle holes in the crayon vans and Hills Alive cars.  Greg and Levi were assigned the tedious effort of tracing the tractors bodies and axle parts for the tractor.  Kathie and Barbara traced tugboat hulls and critters for the animal bags.  Lon traced the paddle patterns on the pre-finished birch stock.  Rollie demonstrated a rolling acrobat, as a preview for the woodworking show in May.

Work Completed at Home Shops since last workshop.

Julian Wigen worked on the cars we will be giving to kids during the Hills Alive – A Day in the Park activities planned for July 19^th, 2014.  He finished cutting and rounding over the edges on all 225 cars last month.  He brought them to the workshop, where we drilled holes for windows and holes for axles.  Frank took the cars home to roundover the edges of the windows.  The cars will be decorated by the kids and we will add wheels during the event in July. 

Rick Weisbeck drilled the centers for the two boxes of Turtle Banks and brought them in to the workshop for the next step of cutting the outside loop.  He also planned the tractor build effort and prepared the patterns used for the tracing effort here at the workshop today.

Gary and Trish Graves are working on a new product for this year - chalk boards.  We will have some photos of the boards soon.

Darwin brought in a good supply of large dowels donated by Magnum Enterprises this past week.  The 1" dowels will be used for tugboat stacks, ring toss games, and for soon-to-be-planned log trucks.

Lon Gose and Rollie Lynde both brought in two full boxes of toys to the workshop that are ready for the final sanding, sealing, and finishing process, as soon as summer (warm weather) arrives.  Rollie picked up more boxes of toys to cut, and Lon took the Paddle Games home to machine.

To get to the HOME PAGE of the Rapid City Woodworking Association website, click on the link below:

https://sites.google.com/site/sdguildrcwa2/home