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I made this for my Granddaughter Emma as a Christmas present, 2013. It is based on the Chair Horse from The Rocking Horse Shop based in Fangfoss near York but, since Emma's mum and dad are a bit nutty about elephants, I wanted to make it with an elephant head rather than a horse head.
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I ran this idea past
Anthony Dew and he came
up with this design, producing the head in this photo. I
based my version on that but decided to do a bit more
shaping around the eyes and forehead as you can see in the
first picture.
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I also found it easier to carve the inside of the tusks and shape the back of the ear lobes (to make them stand off from the head) before glueing the 5 layers together. |
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The original Chair Horse has a 3-layer
construction for the head. This is one I made in 2012 for my
grandson Jonah.
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| After sowing the seed of the idea of an alternative head, the Rocking Horse Shop have now introduced a range of head options (Kangaroo, Dinosaur etc.), some of which can be seen here. |
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Emma gets the hang of it!
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