We held our 12th Toy Workshop (TWS) for 2022 on Saturday July 23, 2022, from 9 to noon. This was held 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.
The attendees at today's workshop (16) included Grant, Ken, Harley, Bob, Kathie, Jerry, Patsy, Jim Burk, Julian, John, Rollie, Stu, Russ, Nick, Tony and Rick.
John and Jerry brought in boxes of toys they cut, sanded, and drilled in their home workshops.
Today we worked primarily on Tractors for the Sturgis Threshing Bee. This included cutting, sanding, routering, and drilling. We completed more than 44 tractors from scratch and sanding and routering the 44 tractors that we cut to shape on Thursday at the SS SIG.
Today we drilled rotor/axle holes, drilling holes for strings in wooden balls, tracing Love Bugs, and cutting toys to rough shape. There were three people cutting on scrollsaws, and one on the bandsaw. There was three members handsanding 2 boxes of toys that had been sealed with shellac. Wheels were installed on 42 toys plus on 118 Love Bugs. There was power sanding and round over routering outside in 85 + degree weather.
Several members took home traced toys to work on at home shops. This included Keith Brinks, Lon and Ken.
At the end of the day, there was 1box of toys ready to be sealed and three boxes ready to finish sprayed.
There were 76 toys sporting the new orange pegs selected for all 2022 toys, and 50 finished Topic s made by Dave Maude. 3 boxes of Love Bugs were traced.
An additional 50 Love Bugs were requested by the Rapid City Fire Department.
We did some housekeeping at the previous workshop by moving all Work in Progress (WIP) toys to the room adjacent to our current tool store room. Already we are seeing a major reduction in the log jambs in the tool storage room.
Photos from the workshop:
