Woodworking
DESIGNING AND BUILDING A ROCKING HORSE FOR CONOR
24/11/12 14:18
I always thought it would be cool to build a rocking horse and now that Conor is 1 year old, I thought he might enjoy it. I've been collecting rocking horse pictures for about a month now and curating them on my Pinterest account. This morning, I drew up a few plans and the parts list and headed out to a lumberyard to get the wood.
I was planning on making it from walnut but there wasn't much to be had so I decided to make it out of spanish cedar. I've never worked with Spanish cedar but I've heard that boat builders love it because it's so easy to work with. I got the wood home and began to cut out the parts. At first, I thought the hardest part was drawing the head from scratch. But it wasn't actually that hard. I just sketched it on a piece of plywood and it looked like a horse's head so I cut it out. I still need to trace the plywood template onto the cedar but that can wait. The hardest part was cutting the compound angles for the legs. What was I thinking when I designed that part? It ate up most of the day but I think I' got it looking pretty good. I'll report as I build. But here's how chaotic my workbench looked today as I was working. - See more at: http://dadsdecoded.com/blog/index_files/archive-nov-2012.html#sthash.h2mNdtr6.dpuf
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WHEN AMERICAN INDIANS CARVE A ROCKING HORSE. WOW.
03/09/12 15:35
I found this ro
cking horse in Montreal in an Inuit gallery. The name of the gallery is "Indianica". I keep wanting to design and build a rocking horse for Conor but if I tried to replicate this one, I wouldn't finish it until he was completing high school.AFTER TWO WEEKS OF RADIO SILENCE WITH A WORKING LOBSTER BOAT
07/06/12 08:29
After 2 weeks of radio silence, I emerge with the beginnings of a refurbished wooden lobster boat. Today, Valerie, Conor and I tested the new boat on the ocean. Okay, I took it out first to make sure everything was working properly. After a few tweaks, we all headed out together. If you can't see Conor, he's the one behind the life vest and under the hat. It was super sunny and if you haven't noticed from other pictures, he's Irish white. So sunburn is not an option.