[Woodcarver] Re: Carving Marionettes

[Edward Cook]

add me to your list. I made a marionette last year from some old copys of an old book,that were very hard to see or read. I would like to see what they should look like and make a coustume for it. Thanke Ed
edcook at advnet.net
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  From: SunshineCarver at aol.com 
  To: woodcarver at six.pairlist.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 7:23 PM
  Subject: [Woodcarver] Re: Carving Marionettes


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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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