We held our tenth Toy Workshop (TWS) for 2023 on a rainy day Saturday June 10, 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.
Today's Activities:
Activities today including drilling holes for ear pegs, drilling holes for rotor pegs, and cutting toys to shape using scrollsaws (Jerry, Ed, Rick, Russ, and Darwin).
Harley, John, Julian, and Jim Brown put wheels on numerous toys. Rick and Nick built airplanes. Nick and Grant glued up cabins for tugboats. Lon took home tugboat hulls to cut to shape, router and sand.
Russ drilled starter holes in chalk board handles. Ed took the chalk boards (64) home to cut out the handles.
Due to the heavy rain, activities outside were curtailed. Routers were set up on a big tarp in the spare room near the back door. Ken, Al, and Stu routered the edges of toys.
As a result of all previous activities with cutting and drilling, we still have a good backlog of rough sanding, routering of edges, and finish sanding (with mouse sanders) left to do. Patsy, Mary Jo, and Kathie handsanded sealed toys. A few boxes of 2" toys + almost all critters need to be cut to shape. There are several boxes of toys ready for finish spraying.
A few toys that needed repair were brought to the workshop today by Sue Jorgensen of YFS. Only one of them was made by the RCWA. The rest were made by Melissa and Doug. This is being done to help kids from YFS.
Attendees (23) included Lon,, Al, Rick, Jim Brown, Gary, Stu, John, Jerry, Patsy, Russ, Ed, Denni, Ken, Kathie, Bob, Nick, Harley, Darwin, Laurie Mary Jo, Grant, Julian, and Tony.
Photos from the workshop:
