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

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billy d.

Wellcome to P&S. Could you put the link for those controllers you are interested in? It will be easier to express an opinion

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

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.

Thanks for the explanation, Shawn, I was trying to imagine a fish shaped puppet control with no success!

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

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

 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