We held our September meeting in the Annex to the Our Redeemer Lutheran Church at 910 Wood Ave from 7 pm to 9 pm.
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Thursday, September 24, 2020
Friday, September 18, 2020
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Wednesday, September 9, 2020
TOY PROGRAM UPDATE - 9-8-2020
Sept 8, 2020
Our Toy Program is
continuing as members are getting out of their homes/shops and bringing and taking
toys to and from my shop. Many of the activities that have
taken place since August 3, 2020 are noted in the paragraphs below.
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July 22, 2020
Lon dropped off Tugboat hulls
cut/routered/sanded. Lon also dropped
off a box of toys ready to be sealed.
Bob prepared the spray room for spraying.
July 23, 2020
Bob sprayed finish on 108 toys.
July 24, 2020
Ken brought a box of milled backboards, picked up a box of bases (65) and more backboards (10) to mill. Carol brought 6 quilts ready for cradles.
Bob sprayed finish on 105 toys.
July 25, 2020
Bob sprayed 117 toys. Toys now ready for wheels: 327
July 26, 2020
Prepare area for sealing toys. Box up toys that are ready for wheels.
Mill launchers: Cut 5 degree slot in long launcher
stock. Router the two top edges. Cut the
long stock in 2” long pieces (total of about 300 pieces).
July 27, 2020
Paul brought toys ready for
inventory: 91
Inventory List: add 1016-112 (30), add 1016-107 (33), add
1016-113 (28)
Kathie sealed 176 toys.
Paul picked up about 300 toys ready for
wheels (about 15 boxes). Rick will spray
wheels tomorrow.
July 30, 2020
Rick brought a box needing hand
sanding. Rick picked up the three boxes
ready for inventory. Rick gave Paul
about 1,200 sprayed wheels.
July 31, 2020
Patsy brought critter bags (32) ready
for filling.
Patsy took a box of critters home for
Jerry to sand.
Critter bags stock: 74;
Block bags stock: 32
Access ball/string stock. Need 250 ball/string sub-assemblies for basketball
games, cup and ball games, and paddle games.
Access string/ring stock. Need 50 ring/string sub-assemblies.
Bob finished routering edges of
launchers; next step is sanding all edges. Milled some hardwood down to 1/8” thick for pendants for heart
boxes.
August 3, 2020
Status of toys in work:
Frank – almost done with 27 baby cradles.
Mary Green – has jewelry boxes ready for finishing (37)
Danny – has cup and ball games made (25). Will need ball/string subassemblies.
Ed – has two boxes of critters that will need Routering.
Jerry – dropped off two boxes of critters completed.
Rollie – bring several boxes of cut out toys tomorrow.
August 4, 2020
Paul returned 301 toys ready to be
inventoried.
Rollie dropped of two boxes of toys that
need drilling and router and sanding: 2 boxes need sand/router, 1 box of tugboat
hulls need edges to be rounded over.
Rick, Buus’s, Frank and Julian emailed status.
Danny has four more boxes (2400 each) at
the RV Barn.
Gary Graves is working on 30 small
helicopters. He returned a box of toys after
recovering at ICU. Kathie gave sample
quilt to Pat for making cradle quilts.
August 5, 2020
Rick picked up 14 boxes of toys packed
and ready for inventory. Rick finished
the “Thin” Toys and put them into inventory.
Total toys into inventory today:
361
Moved a large number of boxes of
critters onto new storage shelves in new shop.
August 7, 2020 Rally Begins
August 8, 2020
Frank brought 27 cradles assembled and
ready for seal/sand/spray. Frank took home
two boxes of toys to router and sand.
Bob moved all patterns into one four
draw file cabinet, and swapped bases from two drawer file. Rick added/keyed the lock on the file
cabinet.
Bob cut names of four new folks for the
WW Show.
Bob updated the Main Menu of the Webpage
announcing the revised date of the 12th annual WW Show will be on Saturday Oct 3,
2020.
Kathie made 8 cradle quilts. Bob labeled the shelves on the toy sample
display. He prepped the pendants
patterns for the necklace/pendants to cut on the Scrollsaw.
August 10, 2020
Al dropped by and took rings. strings,
wood balls, paddles, and spindles home to finish. He also took two boxes of critters that need
to be sanded and routered. He will pick up a small sander from Rick.
August 11, 2020
Kathie had cataract surgery. Check up on Aug 12, 2020. Also on Aug 18, 2020. Bob cut pendants for the heart boxes (~70).
August 13, 2020
Bob sprayed a lacquer finish on the
Pendants
Rick put plastic on the turtle banks. He bagged and tagged them and put turtle
banks into inventory (53).
Inventory of tugboat parts: Cabins (100+), Stacks (100+), Hulls (70 done,
30 need sand/router)
August 14, 2020
Rick fixed trigger mechanism on my spray
gun. Kathie sanded the pendants after
first coat of finish. I deposited a
check inside the Credit Union lobby today! Bob
got new phone.
August 15, 2020
Bob sprayed final coat of finish (lacquer)
on the Pendants.
Aug 18, 2020
Picked up toys after hand sanding by Mary
Jo and Bel. Picked up toys from Gary
Graves, both from ICU and new toys made by Gary.
Aug 19, 2020
Rick picked up 200 wheels for tractors
(2” with ¼” Holes)
Rick delivered a display stand made by
Lon – has 4 shelves and folds with a carry handle – designed by Lon and Grant.
Aug 20, 2020
Dan and Mary brought:
Blocks –
large and small – 190 each, sanded and routered
Cup and
Ball (25) needs ball/strings.
Box of
finished toys ready to seal
Jewelry
Boxes – 37 – ready to seal/finish/Felt inserts.
Ken brought
back boards and bases – milled and sanded.
Ken picked up a box of launchers to drill.
Aug 21, 2020
Bob sanded and routered tugboats hulls
(48).
Basketball Bases: count is 80.
Basketball Backboards: count is 80
Aug 22, 2020
Rick finished tractors and packed them for inventory: p/n 1011 (Qty 113)
Aug 23, 2020
Identify Tugboat Jobs for workshop:
1.
Install pegs with spacer/sand
flush
2.
Apply glue to cabins
3.
Install screw for cabin (1 ¼”
long – small square head)
4.
Install stacks
5.
Pack for spraying
Locate extra hoops for sanding/Routering. Locate extra stock for tugboat cabins, prep for cutting to length.
Aug 24, 2020
Ken brought box of bases – milled with
launchers installed, also brought launchers (50) drilled and ready to install
Bob cut tugboat lower cabin parts (48)
plus some upper cabin parts to length.
Aug 26, 2020
Gary and Pat Graves finished the chalk
boards (64); will keep at his shop until
December distribution.
Aug 30, 2020
Setup router for routering groove in
back boards. Setup drill for drilling 1” angled hole in lower cabin part. setup
for Routering basketball hoops and
Aug 31, 2020
Bob:
Router 1/32” deep x ¾” wide groove in back boards (100)
Drill 1” angled
hole in lower cabin parts.
Sand edges
of hoops on disc sander.
Router edges
of basketball hoops (109)
Sept 1, 2020
Met Ted at School to get new key for
school doors
Went to Rick’s shop to do inventory
check – specifically looking for Firetruck No. 1 and for the Locomotives – did not
find.
Brought home 40 rocking chairs to sand
and spray last coat.
Brought home box of sprayed wheels
(900).
Dropped off box of back boards to Ken
for drilling holes for hoop attaching screws.
Ken gave me a shop tour of his Shop.
Sept 2, 2020
Jerry can donate 20-25 chairs for our
meeting room at the school.
Need to look at CFB for missing
locomotive blanks and Firetruck #1 blanks
Sept 3, 2020
Linda Deibert brought six block bags
with strings completed.
Patsy bought fabric for most of next
year’s supply of critter bags. Harley
called to check in.
Sept 4, 2020
Kathie sanded rockers (8), sealed
cradles (27) and 3 full boxes of toys
Bob made 21 necklaces with pendants.
Sept 5, 2020
Bob worked on gluing hoops to backboards
(100). Then boxed up toys that had been
sealed and are now ready to be hand sanded.
Sept 6, 2020
Bob sprayed finish on toys cars and 8
rockers. Then attached more hoops to
backboards (25).
Sept 7, 2020
Box up sprayed toys – ready for Paul to
put on wheels.
Rework some hoops on sander, router. Make more necklaces
Drop off four boxes of toys to Bel for
hand sanding.
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
RCWA September 2020 - Update
It’s almost winter according to the view out my windows, but its really only September 8, 2020. I want to let you know what is being planned for the next few weeks.
We have a date reserved for our Woodworking Show at Knecht Home Center: it is Saturday Oct 3, 2020. When we last met as a group on March 9, 2020, we were about a month away from our 12th Annual woodworking show. We had planned the entire show and were ready to do it. As you know, it was delayed. So on September 14, 2020, which is the second Monday evening of September 2020, we will meet to update the plans for our 12th annual woodworking show on Oct 3, 2020. We will have to do the show a little different than originally planned, and this is what we will discuss next Monday evening.
The meeting place will also be somewhat different. We will meet at the school attached to the Our Redeemer Lutheran Church. This is the building on the south end of the church. The BH Lutheran school closed down in mid-2019. We had our Christmas Potluck in the basement of the school one year, and we held our Toy Workshops in the basement of the school several years ago. Enter the building upstairs thru the double doors on the west side of the building. Please wear masks, and we will bring the badges so we can tell who we are, as it has been almost 6 months since we last met. We have been given a large room in the NE corner of the top floor. Jerry Hood is bringing chairs donated by the Nemo Fire Department and Joan Bares decorated the room with brand new curtains. We will have a couple of tables for note-takers and for show and tell, and we are allowed to bring the coffee maker and refreshments. You may want to bring your own chairs in your cars, just in case we run short, at least for this first time.
So that is the plan. We will setup for the show on Friday Oct 2, at 4 pm, as we have in previous shows. The show will start at 9 am on Saturday Oct 3. Please bring your ideas and concerns to the meeting on Monday Sept 14, 2020 and help us make the final plans for the show (again). Also let me know if you cannot attend the show, so we can plan accordingly. Thanks and hope to see you next week.
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