Festival of Trees at Custer State Park Visitor Center 11-29-2021

Note:  Bring handmade wooden ornaments for our tree in Custer State Park Visitor Center to the SHOP ON WOOD AVE on Saturday Nov 27, 2021 from 9 am to 10 am.

The following message was sent out on November 22, 2021:

All - we have the opportunity to share our handmade wooden ornaments with everyone who comes to the Visitor's Center in Custer State Park during December.   [Custer State Park Visitor Center is located at the junction of US Hwy 16A and Wildlife Loop Road.  It is closest to Hermosa.]

So, bring your handmade wooden ornaments to our "Shop on Wood Ave" on Saturday November 27th between 9 am and 10 am.  Rick and Bob will be there to collect them.  We will hang them on our tree that we will put in the Visitor's Center next week.  They will remain on the tree until Jan 6, 2022.    If you want the ornaments returned to you, put your name on the back. 

We plan to put our RCWA sign by the tree, with some brochures, plus some wooden toys around the bottom of the tree.  If you are curious about the Festival of Trees, a flyer from the park is attached.  Ok, so get to cutting, and we'll see you on Saturday at the Shop on Wood (910 Wood Ave).  Thanks.  Bob and Rick

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Note:  Lots of ornaments were collected on Saturday morning Nov 27th.  Thanks to all who brought their ornaments down to put on our tree.

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On Monday morning, November 29. 2021, Rick, Ron, Kathie and Bob traveled over the rivers and through the woods to the Visitor's Center with the tree and ornaments,  to set up our tree.  The tree will be there until the first week of January.

Here' s some photos from today :

The Festival of Trees will be open to the public from Dec 6, 2021, until January 1, 2022 at the Visitor's Center in Custer State Park.  Come down and vote for your favorite tree!

Flyer on Festival of Trees

For more information, go to www.rapidcitywoodworkers.com.

RCWA

Toy Workshop 24 (TWS2021-24) 11-20-2021

On Sept 4, 2021, we started our Toymaking Marathon (workshops every Saturday) on our way to meeting our goal of completing all toys by Dec 4, 2021.  Toy Making Workshops were held every Saturday from 9 am to noon at the SHOP ON WOOD AVE.

It is my pleasure to announce that we completed all toys for the 2021 Toy Program on Nov 20, 2021.  I will publish the statistics in the next newsletter.  The next workshop will be in Jan 2022.  Congratulations and thank you for all your efforts this year!

Our next big thing is the Toy Packing/Distribution Day on Dec 4, 2021 from 8 am to noon at the SHOP ON WOOD AVE.

Photos from this workshop:

Note for next time:  remember to trim each axle peg by 1/8" when installing Truck Tires on any toy.

Once again:  Our next big thing is the Toy Packing/Distribution Day on Dec 4, 2021 from 8 am to Noon at the SHOP ON WOOD AVE.

For more information, go to www.rapidcitywoodworkers.com.

RCWA

Cart Surgery/Renovation/Repurposing 11-18-2021

Memo:  If you are available, come over to the Shop on Wood Ave tomorrow afternoon.  We will do a bag filling tomorrow (Thursday) starting about 1 pm at the Shop on Wood Ave.  Also, there will probably be time to do some surgery on one or more of the carts in the outer room.  Bring appropriate tools - rivet removers, sockets, wrenches, etc.   Hope to see you there.  Bob and Kathie

It was an opportunity to renovate the seven carts purchased from the school auction last month, so Rick, Grant, Ken, Ron, Lon and Bob met at the WOOD Shop on Thursday afternoon Nov. 18, 2021 for that purpose.

It took about a half hour to disassemble, remove extra parts, and reassemble the first cart.  It took just over an hour to do the next 6 carts.  Grant's handcrafted rivet remover and a hammer were very instrumental in finishing this job.  Metal shelves and center supports were recycled.  Some parts will be used for tool shelves, tool hangers and workbench plugs.  

Four of the carts have a black electronics box in the bottom of the cart.  Later, under the last shelf in the last cart, we found an operator's manual.  The black box is a switch controlled by a timer, that switches power from one bank of plugs to the other bank of plugs as set by the timer on the black box.  This will probably need to be bypassed for our purposes of using the cart with power tools on demand.

Here are the photos:

On November 27, 2021, we added a few wood tops (3) that we cut from a 4' x 8'  sheet of 3/4" particle board donated by Ralph Brethauer:

For more information, go to www.rapidcitywoodworkers.com.

RCWA