Of Patterns and Arm Rods

[Buck-Beaver]

..and then there was part three. Personally, I like using black shrink wrap (which gets "shrunk" on to a rod with a heat gun) rather than tool tip, but to each his own.

 

[Phantom]

So, his handle is square, right? I know I've been slipping rubber tubing over the end of my rod, gluing in place and shrink wrapping the ends. The tubing is $.10 a foot which is cheap, but "square" intrigues me...

Thanks, Buck for posting about this resource. I am completely enthralled by the whole Swazzle site.

 

[wes]

Does any one know the name of the Site wear the bear puppets are from, its like bear town project or some thing?? Hey Buck was that your project I cant remember it had a lot of good things on that site.

 

[Buck-Beaver]

Yup, it's down right now because I was hosting images on it for my blog and the blog's traffic skyrocketed over the last month and I exceeded my bandwidth. It'll be back online the 1st of December or thereabouts.

Sorry!

 

[Buck-Beaver]

Sean Johnson has the last part of his arm rod tutorial online - http://swazzle.com/blogs/2005/11/arm-rods-part-four.html

Be sure to check all of the links to his blog I've posted in this thread in case you have been asking questions about arm rods. I highly recommend reading Sean's blog everyday if you want to learn lots of puppet building tricks.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Andrew,

Any idea what thickness the piano wire is supposed to be for puppets' arms?

I tried looking at them all and..well...you know your friend here ain't too bright on figuring out weights and measurements.