Build An Heirloom Rocking Horse

For Your Child or Grandchild

 

Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

Age range - Durability - Skill level necessary

Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

Design -Personalization - Time to complete

Wood for Horses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

Hardwood or softwood - Hardwood qualities - Working qualities

Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

Tools needed

Ideal Tool List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Minimum Tool List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Material You Will Need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

Lumber - Dowels

Lumber Sellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

Finding hardwoods - Chains or Mom & Pop

Talk Like a Woodworker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

Lumber Sizes - Grades - Measurement - Moisture content

Lay Out the Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

Pattern placement - Sawing - Curves - Drilling

Sawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

Band, Sabre, Circular - "Fair" curves - Boring holes

Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

Round over bits - Danger - Chip breaker

Sanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

Inflatable drums - Grits - Machine vs. Hand

Dowels and Drills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

Matching dowel & drill - Dowels - Drills - Grinding points - Practice - Hard dowels

Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

Joinery - Clamping - Drilling - Gluing Dowel driving - Saw & fit

Finishes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

Walnut & Sunflower oil - Poly - Urethane - Toxicity - Durability

Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

Sources of supply

Plans for Sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

Biography - Philosophy

 

John Michael Linck  Toymaker

 

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A society grows great when old men plant trees
whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Greek Proverb

 

 

 

 

 

As an instrument of planetary home repair,
it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree.

Jonathan Weiner

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trees are sanctuaries.  Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.  They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

Hermann Hesse,  Wandering

 

 

 

 

 

 

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods.  
But he cannot save them from fools.

John Muir

 

 

 

 

 

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces,
I would still plant my apple tree.

Martin Luther (1483-1546)

 

 

 

 

 

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews
a weary spirit.

Robert Louis Stevenson

John Michael Linck - Toymaker

2618 Van Hise Avenue - Madison, Wisconsin 53705

Web site catalog at - www.woodentoy.com

Telephone 608-231-2808

email - john@woodentoy.com

 

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