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    How do you make teeth?

    I've made teeth out of hot glue that have worked great I usually use this method when making single teeth (buck teeth for example, or the one-tooth back woods kind of puppet) lay out wax paper and using a hotglue gun lay down a layer of hot glue, place two pins side by side in the hot glue, and...
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    Revealing Stitching

    I like the idea of waxing. I've never done it because this is the first time I have heard of it. I'll try anthing to reduce my thread from wearing out when sewing.
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    photos of my workshop

    I wish I had a workspace that I didn't have to share with other activities. Right now I have to put every thing away and then get it out again when I want to work. How time consuming
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    Revealing Stitching

    I do what I call the baseball stitch it is the one they use to sew a baseball. This stitch is easier for me than the ladder stitch, I can go faster but at the sametime being carefull it is virtuely invisble. Another thing that makes stitchesivisible is how you cut your fleece. If the fleece is...
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    I've Finished my Hyena!

    wow! that is a great puppet.
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    I've Finished my Hyena!

    Wow! that is a great puppet! live hand ones are so neat. :o)
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    The corny joke thread

    ok heres a doctor and a blonde joke in one. a blonde goes into the doctors office with second degree burns on both ears, the doc' says to her, "what happened?" "well" says the blonde, "I was doing the ironing when the phone rang, and I picked up the iron by mistake", "Ok" says the doctor...
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    The corny joke thread

    knock knock whos there? doris doris who? doris locked, why'd ya' think i'm knocking?
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    The corny joke thread

    What do you call a broken boom-a-rang? .a stick! hee hee.
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    The corny joke thread

    This is another Texin joke: ok so this texin walks into a bar and asks for a drink, the bartender says to him, "Do you have any ID?" and the Texin answers, "any id' about what?"
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    The corny joke thread

    I hope it's alright to do blonde jokes 'cause this one is like my all time favorite. okeydoke....how do you know when a blonde has been making chocolate chip cookies? all the M&M shells on the floor. :D
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    I just Finished a New Kermit!

    Wow! your kermit looks really awsome!:cool:
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    Puppet Transport and Storage?

    i used to store my puppets in sutecases but they would get squished if left in there to long. So I'm in the process of building storage cases for my puppet. they are farly simple to build all i do is cut a peice of plywood in two circle the diameter of the puppet and then i have a peice of pvc...
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    Where do you shop for puppet stuff?

    For clothes and such, second hand clothes store are really great, go down the kids clothes isle and you can find alot of stuff:eek:.
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    Arm Rods

    I've never done permanate rods but I came up with a methode that is sort of both permanate and removable at the same time. Before I start building my hands I make the rod which is made of 1/8in rod with a handle, which can be any way you like, on the end that goes into the hand I take the right...
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    alien tentacles?

    Alien tentacles? you could try using medical tubing like the the stuff on a doctors stethascope and thread it with wire to be able to control it? or you could do that and then have like a pom pom on top and conect some sortof thin invisable wire to the pompom and have it hanging down. so you'd...
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    Voices for puppet shows

    Fellow puppeteers, I was wondering how you all do voices for your shows, Live, prerecorded by yourselves, CD's?... we use CD's but recently we did our own recording of a script we'd gotten, it was a lot of fun! So I was just wondering what your input would be on (in your opionion) the best way...
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    Puppet Stages

    I think that it depends on what show you are doing. Like if you were doing a show with one puppet vs a show with eightor ten puppets up at a time. the more prefomers the more room you need. It also depend on what doing with the puppet. If you are doing a lot of action and using a lot of props...
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    Replacing A Puppet

    I have a puppet that I made a year ago named Ruben. He's a goofy, buck toothed guy whose been used in almost all performances that our puppet team has done and he is starting to wear out. He's probably our favorite puppet and has taken alot of abuse. he was the first puppet that I built and I...
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