Toy Workshop (TWS2022-03) 2-19-2022

Our third Toy Workshop (TWS) for 2022 on held on Saturday Feb 19, 2022, 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 continued our 2022 Toy Build with Tracing and Boxing of blanks.  Tools of the day were miter saws, sharp pencils, awls, and a packing of blanks into paper boxes.  Ron and Rick visited Western Stationers last week and picked up a truck load of empty boxes for our use.  They had been stockpiling them for us.  Thank you Western Stationers!

Lauree Buus brought in a half dozen boxes from her sources as well.  Thank you Lauree!

Attending today (15):   Rollie, Ken, Julian, Harley, Bob, Kathie, Rick, Mary G, Nick, Don, Darwin, Lauree, Lon, John, and Frank.

Activities included tracing toys, cutting into individual blanks, boxing and tagging.  A total of 571 toys were traced using 25 patterns.  This brings our running total of traced toys to 1,157 + 571 = 1728.  This is more than 90% of the toys that can be traced for this year.  At our next toymaking workshop we will commence stage 2 with cutting to shape, sanding, routering and drilling.

Rick and Lon repaired the wiring on a new-to-us Craftsman Bandsaw.  This is very useful during the tracing stage of toymaking as we can easily cut the traced toys into individual blanks.  The use of the Radial Drill Press was demonstrated.  Rick oiled up the shaft of the press as well.

As part of our shop safety reviews, Bob and Rick bolted a drill press to a larger wooden base to prevent "tippage" during use.  Additionally, the lead wires for our auxiliary new LED lighting was tacked down to prevent accidental catches in the workshop.  

Coffee and cookies were provided by Kathie B.  The weather was splendid and very welcomed by the outside cutting crew.

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

RCWA