My daughter turns 2 in just over a week, and I've stalled once again on her rocking horse. I've make this horse a couple times before, but I always get hung up at this point where I have to attach the legs to the rockers with uncomfortably long screws. In the end I just bite the bullet and do it, but it's always a real scare...
So this time I thought I'd ask if anyone has any tricks up their sleeves that might help with this. As you can see from this picture, the legs angle out and forward from the body, and of course the rocker makes it far from vertical. I have to pre-drill for a screw that goes up through the board and a couple inches deep into the leg. I've already marked the leg's position on the side of the board that I'm drilling into.
I can't really clamp the rocker to the legs either -- it's just sitting on them, positioned by little blocks that I have clamped down.
Any ideas?
So this time I thought I'd ask if anyone has any tricks up their sleeves that might help with this. As you can see from this picture, the legs angle out and forward from the body, and of course the rocker makes it far from vertical. I have to pre-drill for a screw that goes up through the board and a couple inches deep into the leg. I've already marked the leg's position on the side of the board that I'm drilling into.
I can't really clamp the rocker to the legs either -- it's just sitting on them, positioned by little blocks that I have clamped down.
Any ideas?
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