Rocking Horse

My Opa built several of these rocking horses during his lifetime.  I have some of the pieces from this plan already made by him. He also made fiber board templates of all the pieces. The legs which in my opinion are the hardest parts to make are completed for me.  I bought the plan and now am in the process of finishing this rocking horse.

More clamping options

I made this tool to clamp long boards to the edge of my bench top. The face vise holds the other end of the board.

Rocking chair repair

This rocking chair was in our family for a few decades now. It was made in Japan and now was in need of some repair. The wood was cracked in several places and two spindles on the back were broken.

I used my friend's wood lathe to turn the replacement spindles. Removing the old finish took a lot of time because I used a set of scrapers. This was my introduction to scrapers and I really like using them. Finish was wipe off Puritan pine Varathane and paste wax top coat. We use this rocking chair to rock our children to sleep in the wee hours of the morning.   

New Workshop !

On New Years Day 2011 I moved into my new workshop in the basement of our house. I did have a shop in our garden shed in the backyard but it was very small and cold for half of the year.

 I pulled up the old carpet that was in the basement room and put down Dri Core sub floor. I sealed the sub floor with polyurethane. 

I am currently repairing a rocking chair that we got as a hand me down. The lighting in the room is not great but it will suffice for now. It feels great to have a heated workshop and some space to move around in.