File spoon-archives/puptcrit.archive/puptcrit_1999/puptcrit.9903, message 58


Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:38:35 -0400
From: Fred Greenspan <greenspan-AT-earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: PUPT: Fw: Plastic Wood....ain't so good......


Diane,

Interesting that you wound up using Neoprene. I made my last completed show
(non-Punch & Judy) with Celluclay. It looks good and is strong, but to heavy!
The next show, that I have not completely, I used Neoprene. As you say, It is
light, strong in the proper thickness, and easy to paint and decorate. The
only thing that bothers me is it's life expectancy. I have heard this stuff
breaks down in a reasonably short time (10-20 years). Is this true? I do my
shows for a long time once I build them. I have been using many of my Plastic
Wood Puppets for 17 or 18 years without any signs of the material breaking
down. That's why I still use Plastic Wood if I have to add or replace a puppet
in my P&J shows. Since I don't do stick hitting, the fragility isn't a
problem. If I do want to do a stick hitting routine, I made a large club for
Punch that I made out of dense foam covered with dark brown rawhide.

Regards,

Fred Greenspan
Tradtional Puppeteer
http://home.earthlink.net/~greenspan/



Stu & Diane (aka HDulc & Freshwater) wrote:
> 
> I made my Punch in 1985 with the original Plastic Wood formula. Even that
> had the drawback of being breakable. (Judy once vicously knocked out
> Punch's eye with her nose in the middle of a show!) When the new formula
> Plastic Wood came in, I switched to Super Sculpy (too heavy), then
> neoprene. Neoprene is currently my material of choice.


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