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I finally finished my latest wood carving project today, so I thought I would share it with you. He is Buckshot's (our grandson's rocking horse) big brother, Buckie.

 
I have to say, that is a beautiful looking piece of art. It is obvious it was done with love and attention to detail. Congrats on a job well done.
 
Thanks guys it took awhile but it was a lot of fun and I only cut myself with the chisels a couple times :wink: Buckie is 42 inches tall at the ears, the rockers are 6 feet long and I got a vintage pony saddle off Ebay for him. When BMR asked me to marry him 35 years ago he asked if I would help him to his rocker, little did he know it would be this kind of rocker. :wink: :lol:
 
jigs said:
that is awesome!...how many hours do you have in it?? just curious..
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Thanks glad you like it but I would not have a clue to how many hours it took. I started in Feb. and worked on it when I could. Most of the carving was done in the house but the sanding had to be done outside and the nasty long Spring weather made that a bit of a challenge at times. I'm looking forward to my next project which might be a horse pulling a small cart.
 
On your next project, could you take some pictures of the progress you are making? People that work with wood just amaze me. At least with steel, if I take to much off, I can build it back up with the welder.
 
LazyWP said:
On your next project, could you take some pictures of the progress you are making? People that work with wood just amaze me. At least with steel, if I take to much off, I can build it back up with the welder.
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I take pictures as often as I remember on all my projects so here are some from this one
To start you cut the basic shape out and glue them all together


Next you start shaping with the chisels and rasps and sand paper





next you build the body and shape it.





Then comes the rockers


once it is all shaped and sanded and the rockers are added you paint it and add the hair



short version of a long process :wink:
 
The book I got that explains the process of how to build them is pretty good with lots of tips and a few different patterns. But in a true artist's fashion I changed a few things. as their rocking system looked way harder to build than the one I used. I have a couple others I would like to try but the next one I will be taking their suggestion and using Basswood verses the pine I used on the first two. I guess Basswood is easier to carve as the grain of the wood is shorter. I was not able to get any locally when I started the first two but I then googled it and found a source on Ebay so got enough to try one. Can't wait to see what the difference is.

Thanks for the kind comments.

BTW the only screws that I used in putting the rocking horse together were those used to connect the horse to the rockers. The head, all four legs and body are put together with water proof glue and wood pegs. I only used screws to connect the two parts so if I ever wanted to store the horse I could easily separate them. I also added the support under the belly of the horse so it could handle the weight of an adult without the legs having to take all the weight on their joints.
 
I've just caught up on reading all these posts and would never have guessed how it was made until seeing all your photos, Tam. I'd been wondering what diameter the tree trunk was you'd carved it from!

What a project! I'm in total awe of your skill.
 

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