{"id":1976,"date":"2012-01-20T09:26:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T23:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2012-01-20T09:26:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T23:26:16","slug":"a-carved-wooden-marionette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2012\/01\/20\/a-carved-wooden-marionette\/","title":{"rendered":"A carved wooden marionette"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Towards the end of last year I was commissioned to make a marionette which was to look like, and be a Christmas present for, my clients’ son. They provided a few photos, and seemed pretty happy with the likeness when they picked it up.<\/p>\n

For various reasons I was swayed to try carving a wooden puppet. It seemed a good learning challenge, and \u00a0I’d recently been inspired by Kay Yasugi’s marionette carving workshop in Prague<\/a>. \u00a0How cool would it be to do a workshop like that! And there were practical reasons, too; \u00a0in particular, short hair and a short beard is hard to represent well, and I thought the stippling of the wood would be a good and minimalist way of doing it, which proved right.<\/p>\n

I was delighted to find that Puppets in Prague<\/a>\u00a0not only runs workshops, but has really detailed puppet making tutorials<\/a> online – a wonderful\u00a0resource! \u00a0I used \u00a0jelutong timber, a good substitute for the recommended \u00a0but hard-to-get Linden or English Lime. I found the exacting woodwork for the body difficult, especially without a band saw, and I didn’t get things lined up perfectly. But I really enjoyed the carving! Puppets in Prague offer ready-made components in their online shop and another time I think it could be worth my time to buy those and concentrate on the carving.<\/p>\n

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The online tutorials didn’t detail exactly how the puppets were stringed to the\u00a0controller. Kay at Pupperoos<\/a>\u00a0very kindly set me straight and sent me photos of how her puppet was stringed. Many thanks, Kay!<\/p>\n

There are some making photos in my Flickr photoset<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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