Wooden Rocking Horse Plans

Hi there, It’s Ian again.

For the basic woodworking projects I can get along pretty well with the plans I’ve already got, but for a project like a rocking horse that requires a touch more artistic flair or any level of intricate detailing, I definitely need some help. This is why it was absolutely essential that I source some good wooden rocking horse plans.

I mentioned in the previous post that I had come across some free rocking horse plans, but these were, to put it politely, absolute garbage. There were no detailed shopping lists, no expanded sections of intricate areas and, to top it off, the finished product that they displayed looked like the plans… garbage. It was most definitely nowhere near the image I had in my mind of what I wanted to build.

I happened to mention my intended project to my mother-in-law one Sunday when we were round for dinner, as I was hoping she would store the rocking horse out of sight of the girls whilst it was being built. To be honest, I thought it had gone in one hearing aided ear and out the other, but what my mother-in-law did next will stay with me till I go to the great wood workshop in the sky!

After we had cleared up from dinner, Lillian, the mother-in-law, disappeared off for five minutes and came back with several large sheets of paper rolled up, and tied with a little blue ribbon. As she unfolded them it became clear that they were woodworking plans and finally, when they were all completely unfolded I recognized the design as a coffee table that my father-in-law had made us a few years before he passed away.

“Are these any good to you?”, Lillian said.

Any good? These were brilliant!

It transpired that my father-in-law, Bob had downloaded these from a site on the internet. Now, I wasn’t aware that Bob even knew what the internet was, let alone be able to operate a computer and download things for heavens sake! And why hadn’t he shown them to me?

Turns out that he couldn’t operate a computer but had been talking to one of his pals at the social club and he got his grandson to download these plans for him. And he didn’t tell me because he wanted us to think that he had made the coffee table without any outside assistance at all. Bless him.

I can’t tell you how excited I was, these plans were superb, and what was even better was that the website address was printed at the bottom of each of the sheets. I jumped on Lillian’s computer and with a mixture of nervousness and excitement I typed in the website address.

It had been 2 years since Bob had died, and he’d made the table a couple of years before that. Was the site still going to be there?

The site came up and I was like a kid in a candy store. The search for my wooden rocking horse plans was on…