14th Annual RCWA Woodworking Show –
Story with Photos – 4-23-2022

Dateline:  23 April 2022                                   Temperature at Showtime:  33 degrees F

For a Press Release, click here:  Press Release for 2022 WW Show 

OUTLINE – with spots for Photos

The Rapid City Woodworkers Association (RCWA) shared their
skills and showed finished art products during their 14th annual Woodworking
Show. It was held Saturday April 23, 2022, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Knecht
Home Center at 320 West Boulevard in Rapid City. The event was free to the
public.

The show featured displays of fine woodworking projects by
individual members. The theme for the show was “Puzzles and Games”.  The group showed collections of Old Tools and
game tables for kids and adults including marble games, kangaroo races,
basketball games, giant and medium JENGA games, and a Love Bug/Puzzle Car race
track.  There were also live
demonstrations of wood turning, scroll sawing, toy-making, and computer
controlled routers.  Visitors to the show
were given the opportunity to receive the free monthly club newsletter as well
as lots of door prizes of handcrafted wooden items made by members. In
addition, a raffle and silent auction was held for several wooden items.
Proceeds from the show will be used to buy supplies for the RCWA’s Toy Making
Program for less fortunate children in the Black Hills.

Woodworking demonstrations included several projects with
explanations of how to make wooden toys, how to turn bowls, hammers, pens and
tops on a lathe, and using a scroll saw to make name signs, bowls, vases, and
other fretwork items. Interested children received their individual names cut
from ¾” pine wood to take home. Kids colored their own puzzle cars or love bugs,
members added wheels, and then the kids tested their new toys on the race
track.  Members of the RCWA shared tips
and advice as well as swapped ideas for techniques and projects from those
attending the show.

Attending/Participating (26)

Jerry and Patsy Hood, Kathie and Bob Buchanan, Lauree and
Darwin Buus, Rick Weisbeck, Cori Weisbeck, Ed Pike, Dennis Eliason, Julian
Wigen, Mary and Grant Coffin, Al Oines, Mary Green, Jeff and Celi Albrecht, Lon
Gose, Rollie Lynde, Tony Verchio, John Wolf, Jim Burke, Jim Brown, Ron Fisher, Stu Kellogg, Gary Graves.

WELCOME TO THE WOODWORKING SHOW!

WW SHOW THEME:  PUZZLES
and GAMES

RCWA TRAVELING DISPLAY CASE

FRONT ENTRY TABLE……(includes DOOR PRIZES, SIGN-IN,
RAFFLE ITEMS, and SILENT AUCTION)

Door Prizes / Sign-up / Registration

Raffle Items…………………Raffle Winners

Silent Auction

TOY PROGRAM DISPLAY

TOYS MADE FOR 2021 CHRISTMAS TOY PROGRAM

TOY PROGRAM HISTORY – PHOTOS/Trifold Display

SLIDE SHOW – Continuous Loop

TOYMAKING 101 DISPLAY

CLUB DISPLAY

Tables were placed near the middle of the store for displaying
items made by club members that represented the Show’s theme. 

OLD TOOLS DISPLAY – LON GOSE brought in three panels of old
tools attached to boards for display during the show.

INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS’ DISPLAYS – tables were set up along
aisles and walkways in the store to hold members individual displays.  Those who brought items for displaying on
tables included:.

Julian Wigen

Al Oines

Mary Green

Jim Burke

Rick and Mary Weisbeck

Cori Weisbeck

Bob and Kathie Buchanan

Ed Pike

Darwin and Lauree Buus

Grant and Mary Coffin

Jeff and Celi Albrecht

John Wolf

Ron Fisher

Stu Kellogg

Tony Verchio

Jerry and Patsy Hood

Dennis Eliason

Rollie Lynde

DEMONSTRATIONS – areas/tables were set up to accomodate
scrollsaws, lathes, CNC machines, toymaking apparatus, and a Target for the
Gatling Gun……

WOODTURNING – the woodturning demonstration was set up
between the two entry doors….

WOODTURNING LATHE

SCROLLSAWING – 5 scrollsaws, a drill
press, a laptop computer and printer, a bandsaw, and portable hand sanders.

Names cut from 3/4″ pine wood for kids:

The DEWALT Show…

TOYMAKING – Three tables for kids for coloring puzzle
cars or love bugs, with toymakers installing wheels on the cars.  The race track was the final test.  New this year – some kids wanted to color their wooden names, too.

COMPUTER NUMERICALLY CONTROLLED (CNC) ROUTER DEMONSTRATION –
RICK WEISBECK placed his CNC router on a movable cart and  cleared an area in the shipping/receiving
area for the demonstration

GATLING GUN TARGET PRACTICE – was set up in the
shipping/receiving area. 

GAMES FOR KIDS

An area was prepared for games for kids,
including a double marble game, a double basketball game, a tabletop race
track, wooden puzzles, a Giant Jenga game, a medium Jenga game, and a full
blown 8′ 3-track race track.

Luncheon Details………Mary C, Lauree, Patsy, Kathie, and
Celi

For more information about the Woodworkers, click here:   RCWA