Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 07:26:33 -0400 From: Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Rose String Casting and Plastic Wood I used the technique when I got started as well. I always got a thrill pulling the string out and would remember Margo. On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 4:36 AM, David J. Syrotiak<syrotiak-AT-comcast.net> wrote: > We use that method all the time. Margo taught Dad how back in the > 50's. the whole trick is to pull the strings as soon as the plaster > will hold an indent from your fingernail. Pull the strings in order > and let the whole mess sit for twenty five minutes. No more no less. > Arm yourself with a thin flathead screwdriver and a hammer and gently > drive the screwdriver into the cuts you made with the string in a few > places around the mold. this should separate the first keyed piece. > The rest should come apart pretty easily after the first piece comes > apart. > > > Sincerely, > > David J. Syrotiak > syrotiak-AT-comcast.net > > > > On Jul 3, 2009, at 3:49 PM, puppetpro-AT-aol.com wrote: > >> Hobey, >> >> >> >> Jim Rose showed us the string casting method last year at the >> O'Neil. I've done it -- but dislike the lack of control You really >> need to be ready to pull those strings just at the right time! >> >> >> >> >> Before she died, Margo had come up with a technique to make heads >> from plaster casts using the new "improved" plastic wood. I never >> tried this. I'm with you. Let's discover a better material that's >> non-toxic. >> >> >> >> >> Rolande >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com> >> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org >> Sent: Fri, Jul 3, 2009 8:04 am >> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Rose Marionette Interview with Jim Rose >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Thanks Rolande. =A0That was interesting. =A0 I'll never forget popping my >> head into Margo's workkshop at =A0the 1976 national at Connecticut >> College and seeing her cast a head. =A0Covering the clay model with >> plaster of paris she had impedded a string at the mold break line and >> she pulled it out befor the mold dried creating the seam. =A0I was a >> plastic wood user myself and lkament its passing. =A0Makes you wonder if >> there are any chemists in our puppet world who could recreate >> something like the old plastic wood formula. =A0Non toxic would be good. >> >> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 9:20 PM, <puppetpro-AT-aol.com> wrote: >>> >>> This is the raw footage of the interview I taped of Jim Rose >>> speaking about >> Mrs. Noah and the fire at the Rose studio in 1961. I finished a DVD >> of the >> restoration process and mailed it off today. >>> >>> >>> >>> http://www.youtube >> .com/watch?v=PbZZ8lx-HL8 >>> >>> >>> >>> Rolande >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org >>> Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit >>> Archives: http://www.driftline.org >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org >>> Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit >>> Archives: http://www.driftline.org >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org >> Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit >> Archives: http://www.driftline.org >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org >> Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit >> Archives: http://www.driftline.org > > _______________________________________________ > List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org > Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit > Archives: http://www.driftline.org > _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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