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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SS SIG - Thursday Dec 19th, 2019

Date: Wed, Dec 18, 2019 10:43 AM
Subject:SS SIG - Thursday Dec 19th at 7 pm at Rick's

Just a reminder that Rick will be hosting a Scrollsaw Special Interest Group (SS SIG) gathering tomorrow evening at his shop in Black Hawk starting at 7 pm.

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Rick finished cutting all the parts and animals and people for Noah's Ark, and glued and assembled the Ark.  This is a candidate for a Raffle Item at the April 18, 2020, Woodworking Show at Knecht Home Center in Rapid City.

Rick also displayed a large group of Christmas scroll sawn ornaments, along with sources of patterns for each.

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