Prep for Next TWS 11.4.2023

Weather prediction for this week

 

To Do:

1.  Seal heart boxes, tow trucks, and thin boats, thin whales, and thin ducks.,

Heart boxes need to be sealed/sanded/sprayed/felt installed/necklaces inserted.

Tow trucks need to be sealed/sanded/sprayed/tow hook installed/wheels installed (regular tires on front, truck tires on rear).

Thin toy group needs to be sealed/sanded/sprayed/wheels installed.

2.  Spray finish caterpillars, mini-vans, and crayon whales. 

Crayon whales need to be sealed/sanded/sprayed/crayons attached.

3.  Get started on necklaces for the heart boxes (need 35).

4.  Locate crayons and small bags for crayons for crayon whales (6 per toy).

5.  Locate tow hooks to install on tow trucks.

10.30.2023:  

Seal heart boxes, tow trucks, and thin boats, thin whales, and thin ducks.

11_1_2023:

Spray finish caterpillars, mini-vans, and crayon whales. Also some Love Bugs and some heart boxes (34).

Heart boxes needed some minor sanding of bottom edges.  Now are ready to be sprayed.  Lids must be kept with the heart box, they are not interchangeable.

The heart boxes are ready for felt in the bottom and necklaces.

The gun still had paint in it and there was some daylight left, so I sprayed the rest of the love bugs  - about 40.  Trust me, I really did, but I forgot to take pictures.

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Toy Workshop (TWS2023-21) 10.28.2023

Weather Predictions for this Week:

Tasks Planned for Today:

TWS 10.28.2023

1. Toy Inventory:  as of 10-21-2023:  2520/3055 = 535 to go

2. Bring last box of wheels to Rick (2000)

3. Untape lids from Heart Boxes;  Handsand heart boxes, if needed

4. Sand and router Blocks, if necessary

5. Inspect Tugboats, sand if necessary, then put into inventory

6. Put wheels on 113 toys

7. Handsand 154 toys 

8. Sand then Router Critters with small 1/8” roundover router bits (several boxes)

9. Tow Trucks – build/seal/sand/spray

10. Other toys not completed?  ___(Love Bugs)____ 

11. Basketball Games:

a. Bring wedge-making box with 1/8” dowels etc

b. Remove the blue tape from tops of posts

c. Sand top 1 " of Posts before installing hoops

d. Attach hoops to posts with glue; use red mallets to drive hoops onto posts

e. Add string/ball to BB games using spoons as gauge.  Note: Use 1/8” dowels to secure string.

f. Add one small instruction sheet and 2 spoons to each game with a Rubber Band

g. Package BB Games in boxes: 9 games per box

12. Send toys that need sealing to Bob

13. Send toys that need spray finishing to Bob

14. Put completed toys into Inventory

Attending (21):

Patsy, Jerry, Grant, Bob, Don, John, Rick, Dennis, Ken, Keith, Jim Burk,  Maggie, Jim Brown, Julian, Cleon, Al, Frank, Lon, Tony, Darwin, and Lauree.

Wheels for today's Workshop

Tasks accomplished from the list today:

All tasks listed above were completed!  Here are the details.

1.  Put blocks in bags (8).

2.  BB games:  assembly hoop/backboards on post/base assembly; install ball with string.  Package game with 2 spoons and instruction sheet.  106 assembled.

3.  Inspect tugboats; handsand tugboats as needed and put into inventory (95).

4.  Build more paddle games/strings/balls.

5.  Sand/router - 3 boxes of toys

6.  Router critters with 1/8" roundover.

7.  Remove tape from heart boxes.  Handsand heart boxes.

8.  Handsand toys that were sealed (3 boxes).

9.  Handsand toys that were sprayed before installing wheels.

                10. Install wheels on toys that were sprayed. (See yellow list).

Items to prepare for the next workshop (11.4.2023):

Toys to Seal (3 boxes):

Toys to Spray (3 boxes):

Toys to Router:

Critters (several boxes)

Photos from the Workshop:

Block Bag Filling

Paddle Game Assembly

Basketball Games Final Assembly Stage

Love Bugs Building

Maintenance

Toys moved to inventory today:

421 total today

(+29 to Love Bug Program)

YEAR TO DATE (10-28-2023):

2941 TOYS IN INVENTORY

3055 TOYS PLANNED FOR 2023

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114 TOYS TO GO

Extracurricular Activities:

Knott's Berry Farm

Morphing a damaged Grader into a Skid Steer 

Cart for lower cost glue bottles

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RCWA 

Woodturning Special Interest Group (WT SIG) 10.25.2023)

 WT SIG - today Maggie demonstrated how to make lidded bowls.  Blanks were available for making your own lidded bowls.  Maggie completed one lidded bowl, and Al started another one on the club lathe.  Ornaments sent home as homework from the last WT SIG were returned by Jerry and Al as Show and Tell.

[Building being remodeled - located in Fairburn SD]

Attending:

Jerry, Lon, Al, Maggie, Jim Brown, Bob, Rick, Grant, Keith

Jim Brown prepared several wood blanks for today's SIG.

Here's the piece before the top is parted off from the bottom.

Jerry finished his homework from last month:  inside outside turning finials.

Maggie initially drilled out the bowl using a Forstner bit.  She enlarged/hollowed out the bowl further using gouges.

Al worked on a lidded bowl using a walnut blank glued up by Jim Brown.

Here Maggie is working on shaping the lid.

Grant shared a technique to more easily smooth out the sides of the bowl using a skew chisel.

A future project is the Simple Snowman.

Other future projects include mallets, and awls.

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RCWA