Toy Workshop (TWS 2022-01) 1-22-2022

We held our first Toy Workshop (TWS) for 2022 on Saturday from 9 to noon.  This was at the Wood Shop at 910 Wood Ave in Rapid City.  The shop is in the basement of the annex to Our Redeemer Lutheran Church.

We started our 2022 Toy Build with Tracing, Boxing of blanks, some Critter Bagging and inventory/re-categorizing of left over toys from 2021.  Tools of the day were miter saws, sharp pencils, awls, and extra paper boxes.  

We installed new LED lighting in low-lit areas of the shop on Friday 1-21-2022 to make it easier to see the patterns that we traced today.  Thank you Master Installer Rick!

Critters made last year, but not put in cloth hand-sewn Critter Bags, were bagged in plastic bags for temporary storage, until cloth bags are ready.  Forty (40) plastic bags were filled today, to join the 56 extra cloth bags that will be given away in 2022, for a total of 96 critter bags ready for inventory today.

Toys left over from last year were inventoried, and tagged with new category/toy numbers and placed into our Toy Inventory storeroom.  A total of 519 toys were leftover from 2021.

Attending today (22):   Rollie, Norma, Ken, Al, Harley, Bob, Kathie, Rick, Mary G, Nick, Bel, Lyle, Don, Jim Burk, Darwin, Lauree, John, Julian, Lon, Grant, Tony, Gary Graves.

On January 17, 2022, in preparation for today's TWS, wood was moved from Bob's Shed and Mary Green's RV Barn to the Wood Shop on January 17, 2022, and placed on tables and carts throughout the shop.  Other wood was moved to Rick's for toys that are made from 1" poplar, including airplanes, tractors, and thin wheeled animals.  

On Saturday morning, we salvaged some additional construction lumber that had been donated by Don Roberts last fall.  Some of the wood was warped and bent but by selective cutting, the wood could be used to make toys.

The day of tracing started with a general overview of our tracing process that we have been testing, using, modifying and improving over the past 14 years of toymaking efforts.  It seemed that the tracing exercises went very well, and many toys were traced, cut to rough size, and packed in boxes, and labeled for the journey of wooden toymaking that will be completed by the Toy Packing day on Dec 3, 2022.  Several boxes were taken home to be worked on in home shops.

Toys Traced today:  492 individual toys from 17 patterns

Toys Planned for 2022:  2930

Toys left over from Last Year (head start for 2022):  519

Photos from today:

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RCWA

Scroll Saw SIG 1-20-2022

 Just a quick reminder:  Rick is holding the Scrollsaw Special Interest Group (SS SIG) tonight at 7 pm.  Please plan to attend. 

The special interest group (SIG) focusing on Scroll Sawing is held at Rick Weisbeck’s shop on the third Thursday of each month.  All members are welcome to attend these “scroll saw focused” get-togethers.

A small group of RCWA members attended the January meeting of the Scroll Saw Special Interest Group (SS SIG) at Rick's Shop on Thursday January 20, 2022.

There was a discussion about finishing the Noah’s Ark project.  It was decided to leave it unfinished and let the next owner decide how to finish it.  The project is being made for the Woodworking Show’s Silent Auction coming up on April 23, 2022.

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We will hold our first Toy Workshop for 2022 on Saturday from 9 to noon.  This is at the Wood Shop at 910 Wood Ave in Rapid City.  The shop is in the basement of the annex to Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, so come around to the back of the building to enter.

We will be starting to build toys for 2022 with Tracing, Boxing of blanks, some Critter Bagging, some wooden blocks milling, and other cleanup of toys left to be done from 2021.  So bring miter saws, sharp pencils, awls, and extra paper boxes you may have accumulated since early December.  Hope to see  you there!   Bob B

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

RCWA

Wood Preparation for 2022 Toy Workshops (1-17-2022)

On January 17, 2022, in preparation for today's TWS, wood was moved from Bob's Shed and Mary Green's RV Barn to the Wood Shop on January 17, 2022, and placed on tables and carts throughout the shop.  Other wood was moved to Rick's for toys that are made from 1" poplar, including airplanes, tractors, and thin wheeled animals.   

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

RCWA

January 2022 General Meeting 1-10-2022

 

Our January General Meeting is Monday Jan 10, 2022 at the Annex to Our Redeemer Lutheran Church at 910 Wood Ave from 7 pm - 9 pm.  Please wear a mask.

Due to a Covid sighting, we will not have our Saturday Workshop this weekend.  The next workshop will be Saturday Jan 22, 2022, at the Wood Shop in the basement of the annex.  Hope to see you Monday evening!  Bob B

Agenda for General Meeting 1-10-2022

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

RCWA

Festival of Trees exhibit closes today 1-3-2022

 

Festival of Trees at Custer State Park Visitor Center closes today. 1-3-2022. 

Rick, Cori, Bob and Kathie journeyed to the Visitor Center at Custer State Park today to take down our tree and remove the scroll sawn wooden  decorations.  Results of the voting was not yet available.  Bob will bring the ornaments to the Toy making Workshop on Saturday Jan 8, 2022, for you to retrieve your ornaments.

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

RCWA