best wood to use for marionettes carving Posted by Steve C on Jan 24, 2010
what types of wood would be the best to use for carving marionettes out of? I'm finally getting enough time to start working on one.
Re: best wood to use for marionettes carving Posted by johian on Jan 24, 2010
Hi Steve,
nice to see that there is another member that is going to carve marionettes .
The best wood to use for carving is lime. It is very easy to carve - it is a 'soft' wood.
Where I live it isn't very easy to find because timber merchants say that it is as paper.
I wish you a lot of fun carving your puppet and... keep us informed with pics.
Johan
Re: best wood to use for marionettes carving Posted by johian on Jan 24, 2010
I want to add this tip - but maybe you know this already: it's very impotant before starting to carve that of the piece of wood that the sides should be perpendicular.
Johan
Re: best wood to use for marionettes carving Posted by Billy D. Fuller on Jan 24, 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilia
Re: best wood to use for marionettes carving Posted by Steve C on Jan 24, 2010
thanks Johan,Billy....i'm off to find some lime wood ..
