Toy Workshop (TWS2023-13) 7.22.2023

We held our thirteenth Toy Workshop (TWS) for 2023 on Saturday July 22, 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 fourth Saturday of the month.

Christina Holiday from News center 1 visited our Workshop today to do a story about our toy program.  Her story was shown on the ten o'clock news tonight.

Here's the link to the NEWSCENTER 1 story by Christina Holiday:

Many Hands Make Light Work!

Here's a few photos from the video:

Many Hands Make Light Work!

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Attendees (18) included Lon, Al, Ed, Ken, Kathie, Bob, Grant, Darwin, Don, Lauree, Russ, Nick, Rick, Julian, John, Patsy, Stu, and Jerry.

Today's Activities: 

Activities today included cutting toys to shape using scrollsaws.  Jerry and Darwin cut out critters.  Ed shaped the nose of tugboat cabins.  Stu and crew sanded the noses smooth.  Grant glued up more tugboat cabins.  Bob then traced the shape of cabin noses on them.

John and Julian and Russ put wheels on numerous toys (108).  This included school busses, racers with drivers, and thin 5 Favs cars.

Nick drilled holes in airplane wings and installed them on airplane fuselages.  The next step is installing two wheels on each airplane.

Kathie, Mary Jo, Patsy and Don hand sanded a large number of toys, moving them on to the spraying area at Bob's shop.  Turtle Banks and helicopters are ready to be sealed.  Locomotives are ready to be drilled to accept smoke stacks and then spray finished.

Lon returned another box of toys all cut to shape, routered and sanded.  Lon took home a few boxes of toys to work on.  Don took home a few boxes to work on.

Russ installed pegs in tugboat hulls.  Stu sanded the pegs flush.

Ken, Al, new member, and Stu worked on toys outside - routering and sanding the edges of toys.  This included tug boat parts.

Rick, Bob and Lauree expedited the flow of toys around the production line today.

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.   Several boxes of critters are available for cutting to shape.  There are several boxes of toys ready for finish spraying. Several boxes of toys are ready to be sealed.

Summary/Status Sheet

Today's Temps

Photos from the Workshop

Darwin and Ed cutting noses on the tugboat cabins

Grant assembling Tugboat Cabins

Hand Sanding and Wheel Installation Area

Russ installing tugboat pegs in hulls

Jerry cutting critters to shape

Nick working on Airplane Wings

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Ken and Al power sanding toys

Outside Sanding Area - the Tent

Toys ready for the next Step

Turtle Banks ready for Final Spraying

Stu, Ken, and Al in the Tent

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

RCWA

 

SS SIG 7-20-2023

The ScrollSaw Special Interest Group (SS SIG) was held today from 1 pm to 3 pm at Rick's shop in Black Hawk.

Agenda included one on one training plus cutting out 60 tractors for upcoming Sturgis Threshing Bee in August.  Tractors will be sanded and edge routered at Saturday's Toy Workshop.

Attending:  Jerry, Al, Ken, Rick, new member Adam,  Bob and Kathie

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

RCWA

Prep for Next Workshop 7.13.2023

7.13.2023. Sprayed 198 toys

7.15.2023. Tugboat cabins

7.16.2023 Airplane Wings

These wings will need minor handsanding before drilled, sealed and finished.  

7.19.2023 more tugboat cabin parts cut to size

Today over 130 more cabin parts (top and bottom pairs) were cut from scrap  3/4 pine from Forest Products.  They will be glued together at Saturday's Toymaking Workshop.

7.20.2023  Toys sealed today:

Rick sprayed over 1000 wheels this week to keep up with the demand for wheels on wheeled vehicles.

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

RCWA