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one of the nurses in our er is preggers and i'm going to build her a rocking horse..........
i'd love to see some of ya'lls work, if i may, to get ideas and build one that has the best from the plans and pics i've seen so far.
if anyone has a place for some premo plans i'd love the link.........i've searched most of the web, but i've yet to find anything that i'm completely happy with.
thanx
brad
The Country Toad Workshop Rogersville, Al
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Brad,
Here is a picture of one of the rocking horse's I have built. I will keep looking for the other picture. This one I think I got the plan out of a Popular Woodworking Magazine. If you like this one, I will try to find the issue # and date. I'm thinking it was from an issue back in 1993. I built a couple of bigger rocking horses for my grand daughters a year later. I will try to find the picture and post it for you. It won't be until tomorrow because I have to get ready to go into the hospital as an out patient for a sleep study test. I will look when I get back home.
Dick
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oh yeah..........i like it.....
thanx dick
The Country Toad Workshop Rogersville, Al
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Brad,
I found the issue. It was in issue #75, November 1998, Popular Woodworking. It is listed as the Heirloom Rocking Horse. When I get back in the morning, I will try to find the other one.
Dick
No Pain-No Gain- Not!
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Brad,
I've built several horses, burros, a goat, a bull and a haywagon. All of the plans I purchased from Wooden Memories. Ken Williams designs some of the very best rocking projects I have ever seen.
http://www.woodenmemories.com
Here is a picture of Pepe, my fifth buro and Clyde who is under construction. I have lots of pictures of other animals if you are interested but a visit to Ken's web site will probably be more rewarding. Note that Pepe doesn't have a rocker, it was removed so that I could use him to take photographs of children at a local event.
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Very Cool!!!!!!!
The Country Toad Workshop Rogersville, Al
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Check out Norm Abrams. He did one in NYW about ten years ago.
18th century nut --- Carl
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Originally Posted by Carl Eyman
Here's a link
http://www.newyankee.com/getproduct3.cgi?201
There are about 15 Links on this page to people who have made one of Norm's. Interest to look at if you would like ideas.
Last edited by Chad Pater; 12-29-2003 at 9:05 PM.
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Brad,
I found the picture of the other rocking horse. The wife thinks she saw a picture of it and I just made my own plan from it. So I don’t have a magazine/plan to refer you to. Have fun with what ever you decide.
Dick
No Pain-No Gain- Not!
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These are the horses I do for friends that are having babies...
I got the plans free with my table saw from Grizzly, but they are
similar to old plans from Wood.
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All those posted are quite nice and I like the variety.
One thing to keep in mind is how "rocky" you want the rocking horse. My father made one for my daughter (sorry, no pic handy) but made the rockers removable because he left them a bit flat on the ends so the rocking was limited.
Now that my daughter is older, I can remove the rockers and take off the flat spots so she can "get going" if she wants to. While she was younger, he felt this would be a safer route to go.
Chris
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great ideas great info and great people!!!!!
thanx so much for the pics.......i've really got an idea of what i want and i have ya'll to thank!
brad
The Country Toad Workshop Rogersville, Al
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Here's one I made a couple years ago for my nephew. It's from Woodsmith.
Dave on Lake Greenwood, SC
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one word............... OOOH!!!
dang that's nice!
The Country Toad Workshop Rogersville, Al
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Brad
Here's one of my favorites. It is from Home Woodworker a couple years back. Supposed to be made of contrasting woods, but I used all oak instead. Sorry bout the bad pic, but at least you can see the design.
Ed
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