[Woodcarver] Re: Carving Marionettes

[Bill Smith]

yes I would like this info on makin them and the
photo's Bill

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> > If anyone is interested in making working

> marionettes I will take the 

> costumes off of one or two I made about 50 years

> ago, and take pictures of them and 

> send you an E-mail with the pic's in it when I get

> back to Florida in 

> mid-August.

> The heads, hands, and feet, are carved and painted.

> The torso is a 

> rectangular piece of board (everything was of White

> Pine if I remember correctly, 

> because fancy work for others we did in Walnut,

> Mahogany, or Oak, for working stuff 

> we used White Pine because it was clear grained and

> dirt cheap) cut to 

> proportion, and the arms are two pieces of wood

> stock with leather joining the 

> shoulder, elbow, and hands: the same type handling

> with the legs and feet.  This is 

> a six string system using a wooden hand control

> cross with a removable knee 

> action bar fitted on top of the cross with a peg.

> We did many shows with these, and I used them to

> teach my daughters how to 

> work the marionettes. They are very simple, not

> nearly as complicated as the 

> ones my father and grandfather made (those had

> moving jaws and other features 

> that are not hard to figure out how to do, just a

> lot of work) since they also 

> made ventriloquist dummies. But mine were easy to

> use and much like the ones 

> made in eastern Europe during the middle ages. 

> BTW - for those who remember, I am still fouled up

> from the backlashed blade 

> on the grinder that cut all the way into the bone. I

> didn't have to have the 

> amputation done, but I do have permanent nerve

> damage to the index finger of 

> the right hand. It feels like I'm sticking it into a

> light socket everytime I 

> touch something. Now I will have to make some custom

> handles for my knives so 

> they will leave the finger sticking out in a

> supported style.  The funny thing 

> about the grinder accident is the first thing my

> Father taught me in his shop 

> was to respect the grinders. He lost 1/2 of the same

> finger to an old fashioned 

> stone grinder when he was an apprentice.  It just

> goes to show ... a wise man 

> won't watch what's going on outside and work with

> grinders at the same 

> time!!!!!

> Yours ..... SunshineCarver

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