Pony swing for countless hours of fun

Well, more like the pony swing vs the pony tale. But this is a short tale of sorts.

Once upon a time…there was a girl that dreamed of making everything she could imagine in her head, out of wood. She grew up around her dad making wood things, he was a carpenter. No stranger to tools, having grown up around hammers, nails, planers, saws and such. She tinkered here and there and her very first project was a photo scrapbook album cover made out of a scrap piece of 1/4″ plywood. She carved “her memories” on it and it’s held up all these years. That was 1975 during her sophomore year of high school.

The girl is me and I still love wood projects! One of the 100’s of projects I imagined in my mind was a wooden pony swing for a child.

Unfortunately, I was too busy being a hands-on, full time momma that I never found the time to make it for my own babies. But, now that I’m a Grand-ma and have this precious little grand baby—well…the time was made. Especially since he was coming for a visit! And what better way to spend a summer day–than swinging on a pony swing, made just for you?

So, here began the building of the pony swing.

(Right about now, my daughter is saying “WAIT! How did she draw a horse head? My Momma doesn’t/can’t draw animals!” And that’s TRUE, I can’t, I’m horrible at it! But that’s when the internet comes in very handy! So aside from all the other measured pieces and drawn out diagrams, I resorted to clip art images for a horse silhouette online. Clever huh? Otherwise this pony swing might have had a totally different appearance! So, thank you Al Gore for the internet—ha!

I LOVE power tools but I found while working with this project, that I would really love to replace our current sander. If any of you wood project lovers out there have a recommendation of an awesome one, I would love to hear about it! Some of the tools I used for this project included a band saw. Here are some more projects you too can make with a band saw, click here.