General Meeting of RCWA 3.10.2014

General Meeting Monday March 10th  - 7 pm at 910 Wood Ave in Rapid City.

To catch up on all the happenings at the March 2014 meeting of the Rapid City Woodworkers Association, click on the following link for meeting minutes:

https://sites.google.com/site/rcwa004/meetingminutes/meeting-minutes---2014 

Show and Tell Items presented at the meeting included some ideas on helicopter building, a superb example of a natural edge scroll sawn model of a nativity scene, more prototype toys including road graders, porcupines and firetrucks, a MOXON VISE built from Walmart dumbbell handles with ACME threaded bolts and nuts, and a jumping moving Kangaroo model.

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Toy Workshop March 8, 2014

All - Just a reminder that we will be having a Toy Workshop on Saturday morning March 8th  - 9 am to noon at the Club for Boys Shop.  Hope to see you there!

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A Toy Workshop was held at the CLUB for BOYS shop on Saturday March 8th, 2014 from 9 am to noon.

Attendees (15) included Lon Gose, Julian Wigen, Frank, Rick Weisbeck, Levi Woodard, Gary Graves, Larry and Barbara Borg,  Bel Felix, Rollie Lynde, Greg Todd, Darwin Buus, Richard Rasmussen, and Kathie and Bob Buchanan.

We have now completed all tracing of toys planned for 2014.  We traced tractor parts, tugboat hulls, 4WD Pickups, paddle games, and animals for critter bags.  As we noted last time, there are still lots of toys to build, but the tracing effort is pretty much behind us.

The effort to complete 400 race cars for the Club for Boys (CFB Cars - 4 configurations of Racers) continued as we cut the vehicles previously traced on long 2x4s into smaller pieces; and then boxed them up in preparation for cutting them on the bandsaw and scrollsaws into the rough form for the boys.  Later this year, the boys will complete the finishing and personalizing touches to their own race cars.

 The total number of toys traced during today's workshop was 252 toys, bringing the total number of toys in work since our first workshop on January 11th to 1,681 toys.  This is very good for this time of the year!

Details of efforts:
Rick, Richard, and Larry formed the team that was working on the CFB cars.  Frank, Julian, Greg and Levi drilled holes in the Hills Alive cars.  Bel traced the new 4 Wheel Drive pickups, and helped Darwin drill axle holes in the crayon vans and Hills Alive cars.  Greg and Levi were assigned the tedious effort of tracing the tractors bodies and axle parts for the tractor.  Kathie and Barbara traced tugboat hulls and critters for the animal bags.  Lon traced the paddle patterns on the pre-finished birch stock.  Rollie demonstrated a rolling acrobat, as a preview for the woodworking show in May.

Work Completed at Home Shops since last workshop.

Julian Wigen worked on the cars we will be giving to kids during the Hills Alive – A Day in the Park activities planned for July 19^th, 2014.  He finished cutting and rounding over the edges on all 225 cars last month.  He brought them to the workshop, where we drilled holes for windows and holes for axles.  Frank took the cars home to roundover the edges of the windows.  The cars will be decorated by the kids and we will add wheels during the event in July. 

Rick Weisbeck drilled the centers for the two boxes of Turtle Banks and brought them in to the workshop for the next step of cutting the outside loop.  He also planned the tractor build effort and prepared the patterns used for the tracing effort here at the workshop today.

Gary and Trish Graves are working on a new product for this year - chalk boards.  We will have some photos of the boards soon.

Darwin brought in a good supply of large dowels donated by Magnum Enterprises this past week.  The 1" dowels will be used for tugboat stacks, ring toss games, and for soon-to-be-planned log trucks.

Lon Gose and Rollie Lynde both brought in two full boxes of toys to the workshop that are ready for the final sanding, sealing, and finishing process, as soon as summer (warm weather) arrives.  Rollie picked up more boxes of toys to cut, and Lon took the Paddle Games home to machine.

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Feb 2014 General Meeting of the RCWA 2-10-2014

Our February 2014 General Meeting of the RCWA was held in Rapid City at 910 Wood Ave tonight from 7 pm to 9 pm.  Attendees participated in Election of Officers for 2014 as well as discussions of a theme for the upcoming Woodworking Show to be held in May at the Knecht Home Center.  The current status of the toymaking program was presented.  In only three Saturday morning workshops, we have nearly completed tracing the 1200 wheeled vehicles for 2014.  There is still much work to be done, but we are getting more and more efficient every year.  We also completed the tracing of 400 race cars to be shaped and finished by the kids at the Club for Boys for their two pinewood races planned this year.

Attendees at tonight's meeting included Rick, Kathie, Julian, Steve, Wes, Lon, Richard, and Bob.
The slate of officers presented to the votees was unanimously approved.

Officers for 2014 will be:

Bob Buchanan - President

Rick Weisbeck - Vice-President

Harley Schmadeke - Secretary (with Frank DiCesare - Backup)

Julian Wigen - Treasurer

Show and Tell, accompanied by Chocolate Coca-Cola Cake provided by Richard Rasmussen, closed out the meeting.

Prototype vehicles from Bel's model shop.

More Prototypes from Bel's Shop.  Also a recycled
 pair of busses joined to make a Monster Bus.

Framed Feather!

Bowl by Juilian

Train by Rick Weisbeck

Bees Wax - Carnoba Wax

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TOY WORKSHOP – Feb 8, 2014

A Toy Workshop was held at the CLUB for BOYS shop on Saturday February 8th, 2014 from 9 am to noon.

Attendees included Lon Gose, Julian Wigen, Bel Felix, Rollie Lynde, Greg Todd, Darwin Buus, and Kathie and Bob Buchanan. 

We are continuing to trace patterns onto 2” x 4” stock donated by Dakota Kraft.  The stock was prepared for the workshop by Julian Wigen who ran each piece through his planer.  This saves countless hours of sanding in the toy making process.  At the conclusion of this workshop, we had completed over 95% of the tracing effort required for 2014.  There are still lots of toys to build, but the tracing effort is nearly complete.  Items that were traced today included airplane fuselages, “Oldies” cars, “Small” cars, and critters.  The total number of toys traced during today's workshop was 321 toys, bringing the total number of toys in work since our first workshop on January 11th to 1,189 toys.  This is unprecedented for this time of the year!

Workshop Date	1-11-2014	1-25-2014	2-8-2014	Total
Toys Traced	322	546	321	1, 189

We also traced the remainder of the race cars for the Club for Boys which included more than 75 each of the four race car models for a total of 300 racers.  This brings the total of Club for Boys vehicles to 400.

Julian Wigen will be starting to build the 225 toys for the Hills Alive – A Day in the Park activities planned for July 19^th, 2014.  We will be participating again this year by passing out toys to kids in the park.

Lon Gose brought in a second large box full of toys to the workshop that are ready for the finishing process, as soon as summer (warm weather) arrives.

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TOY WORKSHOP - JAN 25, 2014

Just a reminder that we are planning a toy workshop for Saturday Jan 25th from 9 am to noon at the Club for Boys Shop.  See you there!   Bob B
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Fifteen members attended including Lon, Julian, Darwin, Rick, Frank, Ben, Bel, Richard, Ken, Barbara, Larry, Gary G, Grant, Kathie, and Bob.  The main activity of the day was using templates to trace patterns onto planed 2x4s, 2x6s, and 1x6s.  Items that were traced included tugboat hulls, racers, caterpillars, batmobiles, soccer vans, locomotives, critters, small cars, helicopters, and crayon vans.  The lumber was then cut into individual blocks and boxed up for members to take home and work on in their individual shops.  The total number of toys traced during today's workshop was 546 toys.  Our goal for 2014 is to trace and finish 2000 toys by Christmas.  We are also planning to prepare over 200 toys for the Hills Alive Event in July, as well as assist the Club for Boys with their race car builds with an anticipated 400 vehicles.

A secondary effort was started today in preparation for the Club for Boys pinewood race planned for this spring, as 100 race cars of 4 different types were traced.  The goal for the year is two races (spring and fall) with over 200 kids building cars and participating in each event.

Richard-Bel-Rollie-Larry-Ben-Frank

Rollie-Ben-Frank-Kathie-Richard

Kathie and Barbara began tracing critters to be packaged in the kid's colorful cloth bags.

Rick and Richard

Laurie and Darwin traced crayon vans and helicopters.

Just added to our lineup for 2014 - the Batmobile - developed by Bel in early January.

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Jan 2014 General Meeting of the RCWA - 1-13-2014

The January 2014 general meeting of the Rapid City Woodworkers Association (RCWA) will be held on Monday evening January 13th at 910 Wood Avenue in Rapid City from 7 pm to 9 pm.

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Toy Workshop - 1st of 2014

A toy workshop was held at the CLUB for BOYS shop on Saturday January 11th, 2014.


Attendees (11) included Lon, Julian, Darwin, Rick, Frank, Ben, Bel, Richard, Ken, Kathie, and Bob.  The main activity of the day was tracing buses, airplanes, crayon vans, small cars, caterpillars and turtle banks.

The total number of toys traced during today's workshop was 322 toys.

Airplane fuselage and wing patterns

Caterpillar pattern

Turtle Bank pattern

Crayon Van pattern

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