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One Word: Shop-vac Hey there, Go to your local LARGE hardware store (Menards, Ace Hardware, Home Depot, Sears Hardware, etc) and look for their SHOP-VACS. Shop-vacs, workshop vacuums, are built and used for large and small workshops to suck up dust, saw dust, nails, screws, and other debris...

Today inbetween puppet shows, my boss and I were killing a little time in a very large train and hobby shop. After scanning the many aisles of model trains and tiny fake trees, I came across a rack of novelty toys. There was an array of toy guns that could shoot out foam objects, and one toy...

It's interesting you bring Jack up . . . Some good friends of mine wound up puppeteering and puppet wrangling for this show. David Rudman and his brother were the folks behind this show, who also created Curious Buddies for Nick Jr. Don Kennedy is also puppeteering for Jack as well, and I'm...

Hello everyone. I would just like to let you all know that Jay Marshall has passed on. Mr. Marshall was a well known and talented magician, the Dean of Magic in America. He also was a very talented puppeteer and Punch professor, classically trained in England in the art of Punch and Judy. His...

Hello everyone! This website, and company, was created by friends of mine who are puppeteers from Douglas, Michigan. Soon there will be more information on prices and how to order these wonderful hand puppets. Check them out! www.simplefolkpuppets.homestead.com Marc

Hello all. I was recently contacted by a traveling circus and was hired to build three hand puppets for them to be performed by a walk around puppet stage before and during perfomances. One will be a caricature of the circus' star clown, another of an organ grinder monkey, and the third is of a...

On a similiar note . . . This also reminds me of something that's been going on for a while in my neck of the woods, Chicago. I also suppose that the same practice is done in many other cities as well. Certain companies that specialize in entertaining for children's birthday parties have a...

Using Neoprene For the Punch characters, the humans, I'll be using Neoprene. For the Crocodile or any other big hand puppets I'll use coated foam. Marc

Thank you everyone. Alright, the votes are in and it looks like the best way will be Sculpt or Coat with regular foam. My birthday is on the 20th, and I think I'll treat myself to a little self birthday present of a quart or gallon of SoC and experiment. The show that I'm revamping is a...

Hello everyone, This winter/spring/summer I'm going to be undertaking a large building project. I'll be totally revamping an already existing show (building new versions of already existing puppets) and creating new puppets for a second show. Both shows will be using hand and glove puppets. A...

Maybe This Way . . . Hey there all, it's been a while since I last posted. I've seen the Java sketch (it's been a while though, so what I remember I'll take a stab at answering your question), and although I don't know exactly how they blew the smoke and rotated the eyes (I could guess) I have...

Hey all, I was just at Hobby Lobby today and saw that they have quite a selection of colorful plastic spoons, practically every color of the rainbow. Just a little info for those of you who like to use them for eyeballs and were looking for something more colorful than white. marc

I heard Christopher Hudert mention this in an email to me, and I've been trying to look for more info on google to no avail. What is puptcrit? Marc

Yes, the Foam Book is still in print. Yes, the foam book is still in print. Not only does Grey Seal have the Foam Book, but they also have two videos to using foam PLUS a new Foam Kit. Here's a link to their site, which will have all the information: http://www.greysealpuppets.com/products.html

Thank you so much Ravage. Now, what is a whip stich? :confused: And I've tried cutting fur before, and I've always ended up with the cloth backing being exposed, like there will be a little of the backing exposed. Do you think that's from cutting the fur?

I'm interested in building myself a puppet, out of polyfoam, with a fur covering. I have some interesting colored shag like fur that I'd like to use to make a puppet. Now, I only have limited eperience sewing on a machine and none with sewing by hand and I would really like there to be no...

Do you know what he's been up to lately, Sam? Is he touring right now, and where?

Thanks Buck. I've actually have worked with them before, and I was curious if any other puppeteers have heard about them outside of the Chicago area. This past summer Hystopolis performed Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine, a show they had performed for the Henson Festival back in 1990. It was an...

I was just curious if anyone here has heard of a puppet company from Chicago called Hystopolis productions. I know that they were around in their own theatre for about 20 years in down town Chicago. Has anyone ever heard of them and the work that they do? Take care all, Marc

So NO ONE has heard of this puppeteer, eh? Hey Buck, have you? Marc