TOY WORKSHOP 2-20-2021 (TWS2021-02)
We met at the SHOP in the Club
for Boys for a Toy Making Workshop on Feb 20, 2021. The previous weekend workshop was cancelled
due to sub-zero weather and snow.
Attendees (22): John, Harley,
Ken, Don, Al, Grant, Mary and Danny, Jerry and Patsy, Bob and Kathie, Rollie,
Ralph, Jim, Laurie and Darwin, Carson, Rick, Lon, Dennis, Gary Graves
Activities:
Tracing patterns on 2” thick wood (douglas fir and pine)
Tracing patterns on 1” thick poplar and dimensional 1x pine
Rick installed a hasp and lock on our new tool cabinet in the small parts room by the Shop at the Club for Boys.
Results today:
Toys Traced: 1,174 / 38 patterns
This
included tractors and airplanes traced in Rick’s shop: 295 toys
Breakdown: 949 toys on 2x material
225 toys on 1x pine
Toy Blanks taken home: 15 boxes
Toys completed, packed and sent to
inventory: 0
Total new Toys in inventory to date: 114
Decisions: We picked the color GREEN for the axles for
2021. But we will need 100 black pegs painted all
except the last ¼” for the Racing Lady Bugs' antennae for the Woodworking Show on April 17,
2021.
Photos from the event are shown below:
