A Traditional Rocking Horse.

I have always wanted to have a traditional wooden rocking horse BUT have been put off by the cost, anything from £2000 up to
£8000  !!!  Way out of my budget range.

I thought about carving one but worked out the wood alone would cost £100's - again too much.

So I hatched a scheme to make one a LOT cheaper.

Specification:

1. It had to be big size because my grand daughter is 6
2. It had to be strong enough to hold a reasonable sized adult
3. It had to stand being out side all year round because there was no room in the house.
4. It had to be made from easily available materials I could get in the local DIY and with the hand tools I had.

NOTE

Because of the difficulty in uploading high definition pictures to Instructables I have included a PDF file of all the drawings.

Step 1 The build method

I decided to build a ply wood base consisting of the legs, head and a box for the body. This would then be "clad" in insulation foam polystyrene - the dense sort you can get for house insulation. the stuff I got was pink but is available in blue as well. If your local DIY store hasn't got it you may have to visit a builders merchant.

The dimensions were established by looking at existing models and scaling them in a CAD system to suite the size I wanted. The outline were then drawn in a CAD system on a 1 inch grid so I could transfer them to 18 mm ply wood at full size.

Comments

[Dr Qui]

Impressive, will probably be more thought of than a store bought one because you made it.

[Penolopy Bulnick]

I think that is amazing! I think there is nothing better for a kid than a good traditional rocking horse.

[rickharris]

Thanks.