Building A Rocking Horse
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- čas přidán 30. 12. 2018
- This video shows a compilation of images taken during the building of a Rocking Horse for our granddaughter Brooklyn. It was constructed between April and December 2018 although not all that time was spent making it and there are no specific photos of the making of the stand.
The original plans for the medium size "Rocky" rocking horse came from The Rocking Horse Shop (www.rockinghorse.co.uk) based in Fangfoss, York in the UK. The plans are great and, as in the case of Brooklyn's horse, can be made from any timbers you might prefer. The Rocking Horse Shop samples are made from russian birch plywood laminations and look teriffic.
My wife and I agreed to make an heirloom quality rocking horse that could be handed down to future generations in the family and so we spend quite some time and several trips to Sydney timber yards looking for timbers that we thought would look appropriate. American Black Walnut and European Beech compliment each other nicely in texture, figure and colour so they were the timbers upon which we decided. I purchased all the milled timbers from Trend Timbers in Mulgrave, Sydney.
After looking at several local options for rocking horse hardware, the hair and all of the tack that would be needed to finish the horse and stand, we opted to purchase everything from The Rockinghorse Shop in the UK and import it all to Australia. Not a light decision by any means but the excellent quality of the hardware they sell convinced us that we should buy all the tack from them as well. This included the saddle, bridle, bit, stirrups, reins, martingale, girth and crupper. And all the tack is removeable from the horse so the kids can play with the horse as much as they want to.
I can't speak highly enough of the staff at The Rocking Horse Shop as they went out of their way to answer my questions on tack options and made the swing irons to my horse's particular dimensions.
I am not a wood turner so I had a local woodworking club member turn the Australian Silky Oak posts to my plans. I hadn't carved wood previous to this so a few new tools were purchased to help in the build and I particularly liked the Arbortech grinder attachments available from that company here in Australia.
Building the horse and stand was simultaneously exciting and frightening given I had no previous experience carving wood and the cost of the materials involved.
But I think it turned out OK in the end and I'd love to make another one.
When they dig us all up in 5000 years they will find that and know that there was beauty and art in our society. What an absolute treasure. Thank you for sharing it with us all.
Thankyou for such a nice comment. It was made with a lot of love and I'm glad my woodworking skills came into use. A huge amount of thanks for the success of the whole project has to go to The Rocking Horse Shop in the UK.
I dont see any nails in the saddlle or tack. Thank goodness as it would be criminal to mark such a beautiful piece. Very nice.
Very well done - an heirloom for generations...just looking at it makes you smile!!!
Wow that is gorgeous
Your rocking horse is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing your passion with all of us. It’s truly a masterpiece.
Thanks for the very nice words Mike. It was a project I thoroughly enjoyed, and managed to design and make the footstool from the same timbers too.
I am indebted to The Rockinghorse Shop in the UK for producing those excellent plans to work from and making first class tack to my requirements.
Great fun all around.
Very nice, wood grain pattern spectacular, the depth of colors translucent shone are marvelous a work of art.
Thanks for the nice comment KF.
I agree that the black walnut comes up beautifully under linseed oil and hand rubbed polyurethane and wax.
I was trying from the start to make the timber have the "feel" of wood that invited people to touch it.
A lot of time was spent working out the cutting pattern for the horse laminations to best show the figure of the walnut before the saws came out.
Well worth the effort.
@@NarrowGauge1 ; thx, yours an excellent display of fine wood craftsmanship, a spiritual adventure 'ourselves' we 'woodworkers' embark upon, capturing a bit of timelessness when involved our projects, speaking of adventures your grandbaby and trusty steed..noble horse will have many an imaginative venture thx to you! Its such a wholesome thing to give a child, is a rocking horse to bring imagination alive. Once long ago, but i still remember today the fascination felt then, when i had a rocking/ bouncy 'horse' of the ordinary kind, made of plastic as a child but i loved it anyway, excitedly looked forward to many the hours galloping festively, a frolic about with my pal.👍🖒
👍Я восхищен вашей работой.
Спасибо за любезное замечание. Это очень ценится.
Это было очень весело, и я люблю делать вещи для моей внучки
I am pretty sure you can still buy handbook with all details you need on woodprix.
Nice!
I went to this site not available thank you
This is a stunning horse. I just received my plans. I am still trying to figure out how to trace it. Lol. I ordered some tracing paper 24"x20yds. I will then transfer to some luan wood to make a sturdy template.
It's very nice of you to comment on my rocking horse.
I traced the full size plans onto 6mm plywood sheet using art tracing paper to transfer the pattern. It worked fine. I cut out the plywood template patterns with a jigsaw for each part.
Have fun with it ... its a terrific project and I can't think of a better way to make a horse than using the plans from The Rocking Horse Shop.
Have fun....
@@NarrowGauge1 sounds like I am on the right track. Thank you. Good day!
Fantastic finished product.
Enjoyed your videos and particularly relevant as I'm just about to make one as well. Got any footage of carving the head?
Hi benmarca2
Thanks for the kind comments... it was a lot of fun but daunting at the same time.
I didn't get any video of carving the head, maybe due to worrying about the process too much to think to record it.
I started carving the head last, trying to get some confidence in the body and the carving tools I was using.
I can only suggest that you take it slowly at first. I did a bit all over then refined the details as I grew in confidence. The best suggestion I have is to keep redrawing the centrelines down the front of the head as well as marking out the location of the nostrils as the carving proceeded. That is, keep your major reference lines redrawn as you go so you can see where you are going.
I found that I used my dremel motor tool a lot to carve the nostrils and ears ... we wanted them to be more in relief than what you often find on rocking horses.
If there's anything else I can help with let me know.
Have fun!
@@NarrowGauge1 thanks Rick. Mark
Rick love the rocker!!! Just one question did you make panels out of the walnut? Or did you have wide enough boards to trace the pattern on to? I have my plans on the way from the rocking horse shop and the way yours turned out has me thinking I might give it a go with something other then plywood!!!! Again love how your turned out.
Thanks for the kind words.
We decided before I ordered the plans that the rocking horse would be made from solid timber rather than plywood. The black walnut was bought in board lengths that were 170mm wide (as wide as I could get them) and I made sure that they were all thicknessed to the same thickness. The boards were used to make up panels to match the templates.
The same principle as the Rocking Horse Shop method was used :
I made all the templates by tracing the paper patterns onto 6mm plywwood first.
Then I cut up the walnut boards in pieces big enough to cover each template. Once that was organised, I simply edge glued the cut-out pieces together, used the template to draw the perimeter onto the walnut and then cut out the shape. I taped the template onto the cutout and routed the edges to match the template.
I will say that a lot of time was spent working out how to best cut up the long walnut boards so that the grain orientation was going to suit the finished carved horse. Therefore, the head pieces have the timber grain orientation going vertical while the body pieces have the orientation going horizontal and the leg pieces running down in the direction of each leg. This makes the carving and shaping later a LOT easier because you are shaping mostly along the grain and not across it. It also allowed me to put, for example, lighter coloured edges down the middle of his nose to represent a horse's blaze.
Have fun .. it's both great fun and scary at the same time, especially when it comes to carving.
Great video, any footage of shaping the head?
I had a look through my video collection of the rocking horse and I did, in fact, take some video.
I'm uploading a couple of them raw / unedited to my channel so please forgive the roughness of production.
@@NarrowGauge1 Thanks for the uploads. Which of the Arbortech attachments did you use?
Mark : I used the Arbortech Turbo Plane blade, Mini Turbo kit and the Contour Sander.
I bought the Turbo Plane first for the bulk carving of the horse body, but once I got closer to the head I realised that the Mini Turbo, being much smaller in diameter, might be more appropriate. The Contour Sander with the small diameter sanding disks was very good for the horse's head but I mostly used a 125mm / 5" sanding disk on one of the grinders for the body refinement. Cheapest and worked really well.
Hi it's very nice
I try to get plan but I couldn't cuz I'm not in UK
If you don't me asking if you have plan can you share with me thanks
Hi FEM
I'm in Australia, not the `uK either.
I ordered the plans from The Rocking Horse Shop and had them mailed to me. Why don't you do that?
Were did you get the saddle from?
Hi Lisa,
Saddles for rocking horses are generally of two types : Nail-On ones (most commonly available) where you permanently nail on a flat folded leather saddle with nail on accessories or, secondly, full mount saddles that are removeable and which are basically a miniature version of a real horse saddle.
We purchased all the rocking horse tack including the saddle, bridle, bit, stirrups, reins, martingale, girth and crupper directly from The Rocking Horse Shop, Fangfoss, United Kingdom.
That is the same company that produce the wonderful plans for the horse.
I looked everywhere in Australia for saddles and other tack components for rocking horses, but what I found available wasn't to the quality that we wanted. We even looked at several miniature horse options but even the smallest of them was too big for our project.
Finally, we decided that the best option for our horse was a full leather removeable saddle as well as the accompanying tack items listed above. And the wonderful folk at The Rocking Horse Shop made all these components to my measurements and colour options for no extra cost. I can't speak highly enough of their company and assistance.
Where do I get patterns how do I order
www.rockinghorse.co.uk/medium-size-laminated-rocking-horse-plan-129
This is the plan that I purchased and used to make my templates. It's full size as it comes so easy to make the parts.
They have another plan #129 that is for the same size horse, but uses blocks of wood to create the horse body rather than laminates as in #109.
All the best and have fun if you go ahead with it.
Rick
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