Refinishing Tricia's Rocking Horse

This weekend Trish and I decided to start refinishing her childhood rocking horse.  It had been used by all of her siblings as well and was showing a lot of wear and tear and was covered with stickers.

The first step was removing all of the stickers that had been stuck to the horse over the years.


Next the horse's mane got a trim. The yarn was very discolored, obviously it had been very loved and possibly tasty.


To tighten the head down I had to remove the the top from the rocker.


Once everything was taken apart and cleaned off, it was time to remove the stain. The stripping process had to be done in a number of small steps as the parts on the horse are relatively small. I put a new batch of stripper on and removed the old every 10-15 minutes.


By the end of the day 2/3 of the horse was stripped. I'm hoping to finish it on my day off Friday.


You can find the rest of the pictures on our SmugMug Album.

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