The final toy workshop for 2014 was held on Saturday November 22nd at Rick’s shop from 9 am to noon. We helped Rick finish his rocking chairs and tractors. Tugboats were delivered, counted, tagged and placed in storage. Holes were drilled in Ring Toss games and readied for string/ring assemblies. A number of empty boxes were received in preparation for toy packing on Dec 6th.
Today we assembled Rockers. Parts were made using a CNC for the two side pieces, and a scroll saw/table saw for the seat and back. We found that we needed to use a slightly bigger hole than the screws in order to easily align the parts for assembly. Grant troubleshot our early damage problems and got us going on the proper path to success. Teaming up was Richard, Ed, Bob, Grant, and Rick to finish about half of the rockers. The remaining half still needs some sanding before assembling.
Rick had cut, sanded, assembled, and spray finished the lot of 100 tractors before the workshop. The remaining task was to install front wheels with a dowel axle and the back wheels with axle pegs. Harley, Kathie, Lauree and Darwin teamed up to finish 60 tractors, count, tag and package them for storage.
Frank finished the ring toss games by final sanding the sticks, and drilling holes for the strings/rings assemblies. These will require a final spray finish before adding the string/rings. Frank also brought in two completed cradles that he had worked on at his shop. The cradles need final finish spraying, and quilts and baby dolls added before packing for storage.
Steve Larson completed the cutting, sanding, assembling of over 100 tugboat last weekend. Bob and Kathie put on a sealer coat, sanded that, and sprayed on the final finish earlier this week. The tugboats were counted, tagged, packaged and brought to the storage area today.
Bob brought home a set of parts for a rocking chair to use to scan a pattern for use by others who may want to build a rocker without using a CNC machine. This pattern is now available on the TOY Documentation page of our website.
Rollie Lynde and Darwin and Lauree Buus brought in several empty boxes in preparation for the Toy Packaging day on Dec 6th at the Club for Boys shop.
Upcoming Shop Tour – January – 2015 – Gary Grave’s Shop – watch for date and time.
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