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Attendees (24): Al Oines, Ed Pike, Rollie Lynde, Bob and Kathie Buchanan, Lon Gose, Julian Wigen, Paul Douglas, Gary Graves, Grant Coffin, Darwin and Lauree Buus, Rick Weisbeck, Ron Fisher, Bel Felix, Jerry Norsen, Paul Douglas, Gary Graves, Harley Schmadeke, Richard Rasmussen, Jerry Hood, Mary Jo Anderson, Ken Maron, Don Roberts, and Kevin Gregg.
This was the second workshop for 2017, so the plan for the day continued to be tracing. Rollie Lynde brought in a trailer full of 2×6 lumber that Steve Larson picked up from Dakota Craft. Steve planed the wood in his shop last week, then brought it to Rollie’s for delivery to the workshop. Over 500 toys were traced on the planed stock today including racers, caterpillars, trucks, pull type toys (rabbit, whale, hippo, turtle), some new prototype trucks, two sizes of locomotives, new tater cars and crayon whales. By 11 am, we had used all the available 2×6 wood. Critters were traced on 1″ stock in the overflow room. We completed all patterns on the wood available. We will need to procure larger pieces of 1 x 6 to finish the rest of the critters.
Using the overflow room, we traced critters on 1″ pine scraps.
in 100 basketball game bases cut to size and loaded them into Bob’s truck for
further milling. He brought in 53
turtlebanks with centers cutout with a holesaw. Ed Pike then cut out Turtle Banks to shape on
the scrollsaw. Rick has cut out 38
tractors on his scrollsaw since the last workshop and cut 14 cradle ends on his
CNC.
counting Critters, we have traced over 1,400 toys, with about 410 toys to
trace. Our goal for this year for the Christmas toy program giving is 2,300 toys.
You look as confused as a pine tree in a parking lot. (wood working humor)

