Wednesday, August 28, 2024

WT SIG 8-28-2024

Steve York hosted today's Woodturning SIG at his house, Aug 28 @ 1:00 PM.  Steve demonstrated open segment set-up and alignment.  Address:  23696 Mulligan Mile in 
Rapid City.  If you have any questions on today's presentation, call Steve at 605-791-3221.

Attending:

Michael Howard, Al, Ken K, Bob, Kathie, Lon, Bob A, Steve






Steve showed how to glue a ring to the bowl after sanding it flat on sandpaper taped to the flat surface on the table saw.


This is Steve's table saw jig for cutting all the segments for the segmented bowls.




The ring was held together with the big radiator clamp with spacers between the segments and glued to the previous ring.



Steve's new lathe



SHOW and TELL

Michael Howard's latest bowl made from a piece of cedar from Lon's farm in Huron, SD.



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Sunday, August 25, 2024

Prep for Next Workshop 9-7-2024

Prep for next workshop

Seal toys







Wheel Press Wrenches Project







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Ten boxes ready for the Hand Sanding crew.



Spray Finish












Toys ready for Wheels:

Small Log Trucks (38)

Comic Helicopters (26)

Batman cars - full size (22)

Derby cars (32)

Thin love bugs (30)

Total:  148 toys 




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Saturday, August 24, 2024

Toy Workshop (TWS2024-15) 8.24.2024

We held our fifteenth Toy Workshop (TWS) for 2024 on Saturday Aug 24, 2024, from 9:00 to 12:00 am.  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.



It was a beautiful day with the temperature at 83 expecting 98 degrees.  We worked inside today handsanding, scrollsawing toys, building tugboats, installing regular wheels and truck wheels, and drilling rotor holes, and outside sanding, cutting and routering.   


The attendees at today's workshop (26) included Stu, Nick, Harley, Keith, Grant, Al,  John, Jerry, Patsy, Bob B, Kathie, Cleon, Ken, Julian, Frank, Keith. Jim Burk, Jim Brown, Maggie, Darwin, Lauree, Dee, Mary Jo, Lon, Russ, and Roy.

Activities today:

Tugboat production - 106 Tugboats built today
Ring Toss Assembly
Cutting Toys to Shape: Ducks plus locomotives
Inventory Control
Trucks wheels installation - including new cement mixers
Log trucks handsanding + other toys
Pick up Truck Wheel Installs
"Home built shop" (Rick's) - Tractors inventoried - 106 total
Tugboat hulls + cabins :  routered edges + sanded rope pegs flush
Machine Sand toys first time
Router edges of toys after first sanding
Toy parts pickup - cradle ends
Giraffes into storeroom for Sept 14 Little Battles 5 K community event


Photos from today's workshop:

Tugboat Production Line.                         Ring Toss Assembly.



Wheel assembly on Toy Car.                                       Cutting Toys to Shape



Drilling Rotor Holes in Helicopters.                    Tugboat Cabin Installation.            


Inventory Control                            Handsanding / Wheel Installation Stations



Truck Wheel Installations

 



The Handsanders



The Outsiders:  Sanding and Routering Stations




Statistics for 8-24-2024






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Sunday, August 18, 2024