"Fish" type marionette Controller ? Posted by Steve C on Mar 19, 2009
Hi Everyone,I'm new here and glad to meet you all. Ok I'm curious about the fish type controller i've seen on a few sites and youtube.I'm building my first marionette and was wondering if there is any place or any book that describes the making and stringing of this controller.I have ordered two books  1.The Complete Book Of Marionettes by Les Beaton, Mabel Beaton and 2.Marionettes - How to Make and Work them by Helen Fling. The books should arrive sometime next week. If anyone has any suggestions i would be very grateful
Re: "Fish" type marionette Controller ? Posted by miguel on Mar 19, 2009
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Re: "Fish" type marionette Controller ? Posted by Jorge on Mar 20, 2009
Wellcome to P&S. Could you put the link for those controllers you are interested in? It will be easier to express an opinion
Re: "Fish" type marionette Controller ? Posted by Monkey on Mar 20, 2009
Welcome. Those are both really excellent books. Try doing a saved search on EBay for marionette books. I've come up with some really great books that way-Steve
Re: "Fish" type marionette Controller ? Posted by Shawn on Mar 20, 2009
I think that they both may have examples of them, I am just not sure if they have details of their construction.  Other names for the "fish" controller can be vertical or pistol.  Purist would argue with that but they are similar.
Re: "Fish" type marionette Controller ? Posted by Jorge on Mar 20, 2009
Thanks for the explanation, Shawn, I was trying to imagine a fish shaped puppet control with no success!
Re: "Fish" type marionette Controller ? Posted by Steve C on Mar 20, 2009
Thanks for the welcome everyone..
Monkey, Ebay is always my first stop in book hunting...lol...thats where i found both of those books
Shawn thanks for the other names.. I was wondering what else it could be called
Jorge here is one of the links of the controller it has the best view of it


Re: "Fish" type marionette Controller ? Posted by johian on Mar 21, 2009
Hi,

welcome to P&S.
If it is the controler shown on youtube, you will find a lot of information in the book from Robert Leroy Smith - marionette construction.
http://store.puppeteers.org/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=59

Good luck,
Johan
Re: "Fish" type marionette Controller ? Posted by Jorge on Mar 21, 2009
 Thanks for the link, I had never seen that marionette control.
 I am sorry, I can not suggets anything. 9 threads vertical control is my best at building
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