Assembling Toggle on a Bunraku Puppet Wrist Control

Video Transcript

"Alight. So we've snazzed up our toggle grip for the arm control. You can see that there are those two divots, those two drilled holes that I mentioned and the two slits cut into the wood. That's so we have somewhere to wrap our dacron and I'm just going to tidy that up with a sanding sponge. And now what we're going to do is start to assemble. I have a cotter pin here. It's a nice fat one. I believe its size, something like one-eighth and a number eight washer. You can judge your cotter pins just sort of on what fits. We're going to stick the cotter pin through the washer and then through our toggle and through the hole in our control rod. Flip the whole assemblage over while you're holding on to the cotter pin and bend. Grab the long end of the cotter pin and separate the two ends with a pair of pliers. So you're just going to bend those two ends over in the splendid way that cotter pins like to bend."