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.

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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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Prep for Next Toy Workshop 8-24-2024

 

Community Event - Sturgis Threshing Bee 8.17.2024

Attending (18):  Rick, Wade, Rosie, Kathie, Bob B, Darwin, Lauree, Al, Harley, Lon, Patsy, Jerry, Nick, Stu, Jim Brown, Bob A, and Dee and her husband.

The RCWA toymakers set up in the Memorial Building at the Sturgis Threshing Bee on August 17, 2024, at 8:30 am.  The temperature was in the low 60's at the start of the day with gusty winds from the north.  It warmed up to 85 degrees by 4 pm.

We brought tractors and vans for kids to color and then build into racing vehicles by adding wheels.   We brought tractors cut from redwood, pine, and cedar, pre-drilled for wheels.  Additionally, we brought a box of vans.  Kids were given a choice of tractors or vans.  As it turns out, we gave away 57+3 = 60 tractors and 38 vans, for a total of 98 toys.  Every one of them got tested on our 8' race track!  We gave out our last toys a little before 4 pm, before we packed up and traveled home.  

Photos from the event:

Homemade Ice Cream made with steam engine

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SS SIG 8-15-2024

 ScrollSaw Special Interest Group (SS SIG) was held today from 1 pm to 3 pm at Rick's shop in Black Hawk.

 Attending:  Ken, Jerry, Bob, Kathie, Patsy, Rick, and Bob A.

In the past month. Rick prepped the John Deere tractors  for the kids Saturday's Theshing Bee by routering the edges and sanding the flat sides, ready now for  the Threshing Bee.

Today Rick prepped some 3D cutouts.  Jerry did a demo cutting a 3 D lamppost.

Rick also prepared a great work project from the Scroll saw Workshop magazine.

Today we reviewed the status of our efforts to be ready to support the Aug 17 community event in Sturgis.

Rick has the 2" wheels, the vans, and the racetrack.  Jerry has 3 tables and 4 chairs.  Bob has the rest of the tools, supplies, and the other supporting gear loaded up.

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Tools for the Next Tool Sale

All items are sold except Radial Arm Saw and Craftsman Table saw.

Dewalt 740 Radial Arm Saw

Craftsman Table Saw