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I tend to use my left hand to puppeteer at Comic conventions. While, I'm not as good as with my right hand, I think it's a good skill to develop if you're both a a cartoonist and a puppeteer. Why? It's really hard to sign books with a puppet on your hand! Hope you're feeling better, Kev...

Gee. I wonder where he got this idea? ;)

I just finished working on a professional build, and all of the builders there commented on how good of a resource Puppet Project was and how good their patterns are. I've bought a few of their simple series patterns and they're great! The best part is that you actually learn from the...

I am so incredibly impressed with this. I wonder what would happen if you could somehow get word to Paul McCartney... in my little weird imagination, I could see him utilizing you in a music video of some kind. Top notch!

Aircraft plywood works well.

I read those as well -- on yelp, right? I know they did reorganize a lot in the last couple of years and the staff is a lot better than they used to be. I think that's reflected by the last couple of reviews. No biggie, either way. Thought it might be worth a shot. I know the fur I've gotten...

Lincoln Fabrics 1600 Lincoln Blvd. Venice, CA 90291 310.396.5724 www.lincolnfabricsvenice.com Their website doesn't seem to be working anymore, but this is the place that I get most of my fur. It's GREAT! They're the place that the Kroffts used to get all of the material for HR Pufnstuft from...

I'd say that it's six of one -- half-dozen of the other. I definitely wouldn;t try this on the actual puppet until I knew if you had the skills to fix it. Maybe you can get a stuffed animal at a thrift store and do some tests? Better to ruin something inexpensive.

Another option might be to remove the entire mouthplate (felt and all), then, simply rebuild it and the restitch it in place. If you go this route, be sure to mark on the original mouthplate where the center seam hits on both the upper and lower jaw. That will be really useful when putting it...

Man! I have to move to Kentucky -- if just for the costume contest prizes!

You may be able to turn the whole thing inside-out to work on it, too, as I did when redoing the Eden Kermit last year. If not, you may have to go in through the back of his head to gain access to the mouth palette. My recommendation would be to break it all the way, then re-do the hinge with...

That turned out great! You should be very proud of it!

Oh -- and you can easily cut the foam wedges to shape with scissors -- and you can hit glue them onto the puppet.

You should use those makeup "wedges" they sell in drug stores for the teeth. They'll be a lot lighter and easier to use than the clay teeth (plus, they won't break). here's what I'm talking about: http://www.wondercloth.com/products/36/Wonder-Wedge-Dozen-Pack.htm Like I said, you can...

You should do a bit about him and his ugly stepsisters. You could call it "Salmonella." ;) Very cool work! Steve

I liked it as well. And that song's been stuck in my head since I listened to it yesterday. ;)

Ther actually is an alternate body for the glorified sock puppet pattern that might work here: http://www.projectpuppet.com/-strse-19/Simple-Series-Alternate-Body/Detail.bok

So, my website, www.melonpool.com recently went through a facelift. It was a webcomic for ten years that I more or less abandoned a few years ago to focus more on puppetry. I finally got around to converting it into a blog about puppetry, among other things. The comic was about a bunch of...

I think there's a picture of the Muppet workshop building a Muppet tree in "Of Muppets and Men," Isn't there? Does anyone have it scanned?

I would buy one of the simple series puppets from Project Puppet ( http://www.projectpuppet.com/ ). I recommend the Glorified Sock Puppet puppet as a first design. You can make it with little-to-no sewing experience and finish it in a couple of days. That will gove you some background to tackle...