Show and Tell
Attendees:
Bob Buchanan, Kathie Buchanan, Jim Burk, Darwin
Buus, Nick Carney, Grant Coffin, Frank DiCesare, Jerry Hood, Patsy Hood, Stu
Kellogg, Rollie Lynde, Norma Lynde, Don Roberts, Tony Verchio, Rick Weisbeck,
Julian Wigen
Introductions: No new introductions tonight.
Treasurer’s
Report:
Donations $100. $0.86 Sept. interest earned on the workshop
account and $.02 interest earned on the
savings account. Current balances are:
Checking $5,901.88
Workshop $1,035.84
Savings $ 331.79
Total $7,269.51
Maintenance fee is due.
This is a utility fee of $125 per quarter. Insurance will also be due shortly and will
like be reflected in the next monthly report.
Shop
Tours: No
announcements on new shop tours at the present time.
Special Interest Groups
Next Scroll
Saw SIG is this Oct. 19 at Rick Weisbeck from 1:00-3:00
6704 Kimberly
Drive, Blackhawk. Working on nativity
scenes; 10-15 different characters.
Turning SIG Oct.
25 1:00-3:00 at Brown’s. Turning
demonstrations will feature lidded boxes.
Announcements
We moved everything from Mary’s barn
and brought two tailers of wood plus two trailers of shelving to store at Bob’s. All wood show materials are stored at the basement
of the church.
Rick has replaced a train for one of
the display cases but we would like to put in a few new toys in the display
cases.
Toy
program
Toy workshops are set for October 14 and October 21. We will continue workshops every Saturday until December or until toys are finished.
Plan for 3,055 toys. 1,000 toys done. At least 500 toys in the spraying stage.
We put over 300 toys in inventory last Saturday.
We got a request for information from some guy from Georgia who also makes toys; he wants to see if they can learn from us how to do things better. Board member woodworkers guild of GA. How many of your members are involved each month? Do you exhibit toys? How do you engage clubs, nonprofits for completed toys.
Basketball games, launchers are done (100), 108 hoops to backboards, need to wedge in the posts yet.
Balls and strings: Jim Brown is working on those.
Tugboats need sanding and finishing.
Racers and toys with wheels are mostly done
5 boxes of toys yet to be sanded and routered.
Critters need small routing.
Ring toss games near done
117 tops are done
Paddle games finished just need strings
60 chalk boards in process of being finished
7 new toys using the one inch poplar
Planned 225 helicopters,
Firetrucks are done (65)
Critter bags are done, critters need to be sanded and routed
We do have sketches with dimensions on it. We should be doing this in general each time we start someone on a toy.
Wood Show: The Wood Show is tentatively set for the third week in April. Theme will be “Christmas in April”.
MISCELLANEOUS:
Next RCWA meeting is Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023.
Hank lives in Fairburn and called Bob about wood, loaded up
Rick’s truck and Bob’s truck and put it in the closet downstairs, Rick will
pick up green treat wood from him tomorrow. Phil Bjork has a couple of boxes of wood for us. AARP office is open and display case is in the office. Rick brought in a train to go on top. As we get some toys finished, we may want to
put some new toys in the display case. Paul Douglas paints are pegs for us. He has made 3,000 red ones and 3,000 orange
ones. We started using extra blue axles
for love bugs. Cori has been fielding questions from our facebook page. She has two questions about fixing a chair
and one is about a stair rail.
New
Business
Jerry Hood raised the issue as to whether or not we could have
meetings one Saturday morning a month. After
a short discussion including roads and weather travel in winter months, the group
decided this might be a good idea. The
group tentatively plans on the 2nd Saturday of the month for Nov. through
March. The toy workshop will continue work
9-11 and then we will reconvene at 11:00 for the monthly meeting. Currently: Monday Nov.
13 meeting is rescheduled for Saturday, Nov. 11.
Show and Tell
Jim Burk brought a couple of glass / wood etchings. There is a growing group utilizing laser
engravings in their projects, so they are interested in some of the processes,
particularly related to glass work.
Nick Carney brought in a wooden toy grader. While
he claimed he modified it from a set of plans the grader had quite a bit of
detail including tire treads.
Bob brought in a people mover and wondered if somewhere in
the future, this could be modified to be included as one of our standard toys.
Minutes Taken by: Stu Kellogg
Rapid City Woodworkers Association 