Toymaking Workshop (TWS2023-17) 9.30.23

The plan for the day:

Wheels:  Keith, Darwin, and Harley

Helicopters:  Grant and Russ

Handsanding:  Patsy, Mary Jo, Don, and Kathie

Expediting/Inventory:  Lauree

Troubleshooting/QC:  Bob

Power sanding:  Ed, Al, Ken, Stu, Lon, Rick

Tanker trucks:  Jerry

Strings for Ring Toss:  Jim Brown and Rollie

ICU:  Gary G

Consulting:  Denni

Scrollsaw:  Darwin

What we got done:

All toys needing hand sanding after being sealed were sanded and are now ready to be finish sprayed.  That is about ten boxes of toys.  Tugboats (79) will be sanded next week.

The wheel guys finished 140 toys with wheels; Lauree recorded, packed, and physically put them into inventory.   This included 53 helicopters and 87 Love Bugs.

The power sanders/routers finished about ten boxes that are now ready to be sealed with shellac.  This process always raises the grain, so next week we can expect to have another ten boxes to hand-sand.

It was determined that the cedar fencing used for tugboat hulls was almost unsandable, so 30 more tugboat hulls were traced using some recently acquired pine 1x4s.  Russ and Grant are working to make the final 30 tugboats for 2023 toy giving.

Today Jim Brown and Rollie completed about half the Ring Toss games for this year.  They will begin making ball/strings for basketball games next week.

Jerry installed Tanks on pickup bodies creating tanker trucks.  He also installed tanks on tanker bodies made specifically for tankers to create a new toy called Tanker Trucks.

Jerry took home road graders and trucks to make the rest of the parts.

Bob drilled holes for crayons in Crayon Whales this week.  Today, Darwin cut the whales to shape.  Ken took the whales home to router the edges and eyes.  This is a sort of a milestone because it is the last toy that  needed to be cut to shape for 2023.  Most of the remaining effort is routering critters and other toys.  

Blocks were brought in today.  They will be prepared and bagged in the coming weeks.

Progress has been made on basketball games.  Bob made a run of  over 600 launchers this week.  Some more milling will be required.   Assembly of sub-assembllies will begin this week.

Photos from the workshop:

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WT SIG 9.27.2023

Today's Demo:  Inside Outside Turnings by Al Oines

Two handouts were given out explaining all the details of inside-outside turning.

Maggie and Stu also explained various details of the technique.

Attending:

Jerry, Lon, Stu, Dave, Al, Maggie, Jim Brown, Bob, Kathie, Ken, Keith

Often a finial is added to the top of an inside-outside ornament.  Maggie demonstrated how to make a finial.

Parts of the ornament before putting together to turn.

Examples of Inside Outside Ornaments

Parts plus a sample finial.

Finial by Maggie - walnut

Full moon.

 

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Prep for Next TWS on 9.30.2023

 

Trish Graves is working on chalk boards (60).

Chalk Board Production Line:

Kathie sealed toys (192) today 9-25-2023.

Bob worked to prepare tanks for installing on pickup bodies.

Drilling a half inch hole to insert a dowel to look like an access port on the tanks.

Here's a little fixture that will save your fingers when sanding a flat spot on a short piece of 1 1/2' dowel.

These tanks were made from a piece of reclaimed "Pew" wood from Edgemont and a nose piece cut from an auction find of pre-finished locker seats.

Here are some test plugs.  I decided for safety reasons I should use a longer dowel for the cap on the tanks.  His is much more difficult for a child to remove than a short plug.

Note:  use drill bit size "F" for Locomotive smoke stacks.

Here's the tanks with the reclaimed dowel shorts installed.

and trimmed shorter.  Here's the only waste.

Here's the setup for drilling a hole in the round tanks.

Tanks with dowels sanded flush.

The ends of the tanks were routered and some burn marks sanded off.

Holes were drilled in crayon whales (28).  They are now ready to be cut to shape using scroll saws.

Stacks were installed in 32 more locomotives.

Rotors for helos were sprayed with a finish.

Rotors were made by Rick on his CNC Router.

More work on launchers 

Stacks glued into Locomotive 

Boxes of toys ready for Workshop

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