File puptcrit/puptcrit.0902, message 552


Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:14:14 -0500
From: Mary Horsley <mphorsley-AT-earthlink.net>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Paper casting contacts?


I will have to agree with Mathieu.......when times are tight, using at-hand
materials is less expensive and better for the environment. Paper is
everywhere. It is cheap and lends to lots of creativity. Keep talking. There
are folks like me who are listening. For as many different people on the
list, there are probably as many different ways. That is what is so fun
about making puppets.

Mary H. 


On 2/17/09 10:51 PM, "Creaturiste-AT-primus.ca" <creaturiste-AT-primus.ca> wrote:

> Hi Roger,
> 
> I only declined about you sending samples because of the reality I was in: I
> couldn't afford delivery fees, let alone the product. And definitely not as
> a regular thing.
> I have a problem with becoming enamored with a process I can't practice
> under normal circumstances.
> 
> I didn't try to invent my own just to be stubborn. I just wanted a more
> practical, economical option.
> I actually succeeded, by mixing some white clay (from the health food
> market) with water until I had a slurry, which I mixed with some latex. More
> slurry meant more rigidity.
> 
> I filled the dry plaster mold, and was able to remove the cast within 15
> minutes, then let dry some more. Shrinkage wasn't noticeable. Painting on it
> with acrylics was really easy.
> I must have posted about it.
> 
> I'll use it more someday.
> 
> So I thank you for sharing the information with me when we met, I wouldn't
> have been able to figure it out without your input. Keep posting about it,
> others will react.
> Change takes time.
> 
> You know, I have this same kind of frustration with paper mache, not feeling
> the love for it, in general.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Rogers" <robertrogers-AT-robertrogerspuppets.com>
> To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:19 PM
> Subject: [Puptcrit] Paper casting contacts?
> 
> 
>> All this talk about papier mache vs. neoprene.  Hardly anyone ever
>> mentions
>> the affordable line of casting products from the Cementex Co.  I've
>> brought
>> it up before, but no one seems to follow my suggestion.  I even offered to
>> send Mathieu a batch but he declined and instead tried to invent his own.
>> 
>> I've been using the stuff for 25 years - a mixture of L200 and No. 64
>> filler.  I discovered it in a brochure about the props department of the
>> Metropolitan Opera in NY.  It's durable, it's long lasting and it's a
>> fraction of the cost of neoprene.
>> 
>> This is the last I'm going to write about it.
>> 
>> Robert Rogers
>> 
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