We held our seventh Toy Workshop (TWS) for 2023 on Saturday April 8, 2023, from 9 am to 12. 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. This was a regularly scheduled Rapid City Woodworkers Association (RCWA) workshop and held on the second Saturday of the month.
Attendees: The attendees at today's workshop (20) included Harley, Keith, Rick, Grant, Ken, Lon, Darwin, Lauree, Al, Julian, Ed, Jerry, Patsy, Mary Jo, Nick, Stu, Bob, Kathie, Denni, and John Wolf.
Today's Activities:
We traced a couple of stragglers today: a derby car, and a clown car. Tracers today were Harley, John, Nick and Julian. They also made templates from the orange plexiglass stock.
Other activities today including drilling windows, drilling holes for axle pegs, and cutting toys to shape using scrollsaws (Jerry, Ed, Rick, Nick, and Darwin).
Despite a spring blizzard dropping over 12" of snow around the Black Hills on Monday and Tuesday, the parking lot was clear and dry and the temperature in the 60's. Activities outside included cutting toys to shape on the bandsaw and sanding toys with the Rigid sanders and Jet spindle sander.
As a result of all previous activities with cutting and drilling, we have a good backlog of rough sanding, routering of edges, and finish sanding (with mouse sanders) left to do. Several boxes of toys are ready to be sealed. Only a few boxes of 2" toys + almost all critters need to be cut to shape.
Lauree and Darwin are preparing to sell their mobile storage unit (their truck), so today members helped empty their storage bin by moving surplus items from their unit to various other member's mobile storage units.
For more information, go to www.rapidcitywoodworkers.com.
