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.
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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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