File puptcrit/puptcrit.0905, message 423


From: "Puppet People" <puppetpeople-AT-nycap.rr.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 14:48:37 -0400
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] TECH: Easy Wooden Marionette Joint Design


Hey David;
     Thank you for the directions but I too, like Mathieu, need to sse a 
diagram so if you could sketch it out that would be great.
    Also have you ever made the joints without a table saw? Though I have 
always wanted one I don't have the space for a table saw and I end up doing 
a lot of my work on  jig or band saws. I have also carved some but that take 
alot of time.
    Thanks again for your info

Mark
The Puppet People
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David J. Syrotiak" <syrotiak-AT-comcast.net>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] TECH: Easy Wooden Marionette Joint Design


Mark,

The best way to mass produce this type of joint is to run the upper
and the lower leg parts separately through a table saw equipped with
a rabbitt/dado head. By using a standardized thickness of wood stock,
you can create the grooves in one or two passes on the table saw. For
the tongues just clamp a spacer block to the fence on the table of
your saw and cut the cheeks out on either side of the tongue. Works
great and is very predictable. A simple jig for this would be to cut
a baseplate out of some plywood, glue/screw a strip of wood to the
bottom of the plywood that rides in the miter channel on your table
saw, and then glue/screw a block of wood to use as a clamping surface
to the top of the plywood baseplate. To use simply clamp your work to
the block on your jig and run it through the slot on the table saw.
Perfect every time! You can do the same thing to slot dowels by
drilling holes on a large block of wood to accept the dowels and glue/
screw that to your baseplate.

David J. Syrotiak
syrotiak-AT-comcast.net



On May 23, 2009, at 11:57 PM, Puppet People wrote:

> Hey Mathieu;
>     Good luck with the project and please keep posting your
> results. I have
> made marionette legs many different ways and have never been truely
> happy
> with the results.
>     If you come up with a "jig" to cut all the parts the same
> please post
> it. Really curious on what you come up with. Good Luck.
>
> Mark
> The Puppet People
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mathieu René" <creaturiste-AT-primus.ca>
> To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:48 PM
> Subject: [Puptcrit] TECH: Easy Wooden Marionette Joint Design
>
>
>> EUREKA! It took all of last night, but I figured how to design wooden
>> puppet
>> joints on cardboard! No risk to the wood, or our sanity! No
>> calculations!
>> No
>> guesswork! It's easy! It works, I tested it!
>>
>> First draft of the article, with short video showing the rough
>> test piece
>> in
>> movement.
>> http://creaturistelab.blogspot.com/2009/05/
>> easymarionnettearticulations.html
>>
>>
>> If this method already exists, I'll be very happy if people
>> mention the
>> sources, so I can look it up and see what else I might have
>> missed, and
>> refine my approaches.
>>
>> Although I do figure out a lot of things by trying and making lots of
>> mistakes, I can't claim I invented anything until it's proven with
>> time
>> and
>> research that it's never been done before. No such luck so far.
>> It's all
>> out there, in that universal psychic library we all have access
>> to. If a
>> person tries to keep an idea captive, it's soon going to "occur" to
>> someone
>> else real soon.  Probably a law about it somewhere in the library's
>> charter.
>>
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