My two-year-old son decapitated a rocking horse at our in-laws earlier this spring and rather than throw it out I decided to fix it while the stay-at-home order from Covid-19 was in effect.

So where to begin? For staters I thought it might be a good time to give the old chap a more handsome look. After doing a bit of digging on the internet for .svg files I found one that I liked. I smoothed out the mane using InkScape to make it easier to cut out on a bandsaw, and then proceeded to print out the new image and pasted it onto a piece of oak.

The bandsaw made quick work of the cutout, but left rather course edges that aren’t suitable for a kids toy, so I also added a 1/4 inch round-over using a trimming router.

A new hole was drilled into the head and the old handle was recycled. The project was finished off by affixing the newly constructed head to the rocker with a few screws and some wood glue!