WT SIG 4.26.2023

Just a quick reminder that you are all invited to a meeting of the Woodturning Special Interest Group (WT SIG) tomorrow (Wednesday April 26, 2023) at Jim and Maggie Brown's shop from 1 to 3 pm.  A map is attached.  

The Wood Turning Special Interest Group (WT SIG) was held on April 26, 2023.  

All RCWA members and guests are welcome to attend.  It is on the calendar for the last Wednesday of each month at 1 pm. It is held in Jim and Maggie’s Shop at 2879 Spotted Fawn Lane, Rapid City, SD 57702

Thank you to Jim and Maggie for hosting and preparing the Woodturning SIG.  

Members attending included Dave Maude, Al Oines, Ken, Jim Brown, Maggie, Jerry, Rick, Kathie, Bob, Michael, Stu, Keith, Grant, and others.

Today Maggie demonstrated how to turn bowls.  She gave out homework sending members home with blanks to try making a bowl at home. 

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

RCWA

General info - 2023 Schedule

 Here's the dates/times for get togethers:

2nd Monday of Month at 7pm:  General Mtg at Annex

3rd Thursday at 1pm:  SS SIG at Rick Weisbeck's

Last Wednesday of Month at 1 pm:  Woodturning SIG at Brown's

Toy Workshops:  2nd and 4th Saturday at 9 to noon at Wood Shop (910 Wood Ave)

For Visual Learners:

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

RCWA

Fifteenth Annual Woodworking Show. 4.22.2023

 Link to NC1:  NewsCenter1 Coverage of 15th WW Show 

Link to Facebook RCWA INFO:  Preview of  WW Show

Woodworking Show Press Release – April 22, 2023

Dateline:  Rapid City, SD

The Rapid City Woodworkers Association (RCWA) will be sharing their skills and showing finished art products during their 15th annual Woodworking Show.  It will be held Saturday April 22, 2023, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Knecht Home Center at 320 West Boulevard in Rapid City.  The event is free to the public, with special emphasis on those who are interested in learning about woodworking and the organization.

The show will feature displays of fine woodworking projects by individual members.  The theme for this fifteenth annual show is “Down on the Farm”.  A club table will be set up for items which reflect the theme of the show.  Another area will highlight a collection of Old Tools, with another area set up especially for kids, featuring marble games, kangaroo/rabbit races, wooden basketball games, giant and medium JENGA games, and a Love Bug/Tractor race track.  There will also be live demonstrations of woodturning, scroll sawing, toy-making, a rubber band gattling gun, and a computer-controlled router. 

Visitors can sign up for free door prizes consisting of handcrafted wooden items made by members, and a free monthly newsletter.  A fundraiser will offer raffle tickets to win handcrafted items, or you may participate in a silent auction of handcrafted wooden items.  Proceeds will be used to buy supplies for the RCWA’s Toy Making Program for less fortunate children in the Black Hills.

Woodworking demonstrations will highlight several projects.  There will be explanations of how to make wooden toys using common tools, wooden bowls and wooden pens on a woodturning lathe, and how to use a computer and a scroll saw to make wooden name signs, plus bowls and vases.  Interested children can have their own names cut from wood to take home.  Children will be encouraged to color their own Tractor, and then race it on our track.  Love Bugs will be available for the younger children.  Members of the RCWA will be available to share advice as well as swap techniques and project ideas with those attending the show.

The event will be held at 320 West Boulevard near the intersection of Omaha and West Boulevard.  Specials on tools and supplies for woodworking will be featured throughout the Knecht Home Center during the show.  Additional information can be obtained from RCWA President Bob Buchanan at 348-2865 or Rick Weisbeck at 431-4708.  Photos of the group’s activities can be seen on the RCWA Blog at:

www.rapidcitywoodworkers.com

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Entry Desk

Raffle Items

Toy Program Display

DEMONSTRATIONS

Wood Turning Demos

Gatling Gun Demo:

CNC Machine Demos

Scrollsawing Demos

Toymaking Demos/Build a Tractor/Race a Tractor

Member's Displays

Silent Auction Photos

Member Displays' Photos

Club Display Photos:  Down on the Farm

Kids Photos

Visitors Photos

displays, club On the Farm display, kids, and visitors.

Summary of the Statistics for RCWA's 15th Annual Woodworking Show

Scrollsawing Names:  77 wooden signs were made for children, including some for staff

Sign-in:  114 people registered for door prizes. We know that many people came who decided not to stop and sign their names or were in a hurry, but saw the show.  These are mostly adults, but some are older children. 

Newsletter:  13 people want to receive the newsletter

Times people signed in:

20 people didn’t state a time

9 a.m. - 10 a.m. 15

10 a.m. -11 a.m. 33

11 a.m. - noon 25

noon- 1 p.m. 6

1p.m. - 2 p.m. 8

2 p.m. - 3 p.m. 3

3 p.m. - 4 p.m. 4

Some people who registered told us show they found out about the show:

39 said they found out about it from a friend

16 said they saw a poster

14 said they were coming to Knecht anyway

  8 said they saw it in the newspaper

Others stated:

saw it on Facebook, saw it on the RCWA website, noticed the signs out front, or heard it about it on KOTA

Based on the names on the sign up, it’s about even on Male & Female

I hope this gives us encouragement about people enjoying the show.  

Mary 

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

RCWA