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Summary: Make your own puppet. Learn about the materials you need to make a Bunraku Puppet Wrist Arm Control in this free puppetry lesson from an expert puppeteer.
Emily DeCola, is a freelance designer, performer and director working all over the world with puppetry and masks on stage and in television and film. She is based in New York City. Her...read more
"So here in the puppet kitchen, the ingredients for a bunraku arm control. One half inch dowel. One, one inch dowel, a screwdriver, a hasp, fixed staple hasp which is representing our wrist joint, one of these see-through rulers, very handy, a desk vice for holding things when you drill into them or screw into them, some wire to make our wire holders, a drill, a one-eighth bit and a one-sixteenth bit, some Dacron braided fishing line, a washer, a one-eighth cotter pin, some one-eighth inch aircraft birch ply, available at model shops, some small zip ties, a little elastic for our elbow joint, a hot glue gun for attaching our tubes, a pencil, generally with an eraser, couple pairs of pliers and over here, a band saw, and a disk and belt sander."
eHow Article: Supplies for Bunraku Puppet Wrist Control