Toy Workshop (TWS2024-02) 1.27.2024

“I have been making toys all my life. It’s what I love to do.  And this one is a very special toy and I made it just for you.”

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We held our second Toy Workshop (TWS) for 2024 on Saturday January 27, 2024, from 9 to 12:00 pm.  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. 

The attendees at today's workshop (19) included John, Nick, Harley, Bob, Kathie, Rick, Lon, Ken, Dennis, Maggie, Julian, Dee, Keith, Al, Don, Gary, Mary Jo, Doug, and Stu.

We continued with Phase 1 - Tracing today.  We attacked the tracings done last week by cutting them into smaller pieces and putting them into boxes with Assembly History Tags attached.  This identifies the steps involved in making and bringing the toys to completion.  Today we continued to trace Toy Patterns onto 2" thick wood, cut the traced toys into individual pieces with the miter saw or the band sawhe, and then we moved them to the Work In Progress (WIP) store room.

Rick finished the simple helicopters (#17.9) at home up to the "Install Wheels" step, and brought them to the workshop to finish.  

Our goal for 2024 is to build about 3,500 toys to donate to organizations who work with kids in South Dakota.

Results of Today's Toymaking Efforts:

Patterns traced:  25      

Toys traced:  930 

Total Patterns traced to date: 39/89

Total toys traced to date: 1,220      

So, we will be tracing for the next three workshops at least, as well as starting the cutting and milling.

The peg color for 2023 was RED.  The peg color for 2024 will be fluorescent green.

Here are photos from today's event:

FYI:  The snow dumped on the driveway on Christmas Day evening has almost all melted!

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

RCWA