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I’ve had this idea rattling about in my head for a long time.\u00a0 The basis for this life-size, life-weight dummy would be a burlap or canvas sack filled mostly with saw dust.\u00a0 The limbs and head would be solid wood.\u00a0 Inside the body would be a network of chains and armature that would make the marionette move only the way a slack human body would move.<\/p>\n
For example, when you or I tilt our head to the side very quickly the shoulder that we are tilting away from starts to rise, lifting the arm a little.\u00a0 If the head of a doll is just affixed at one point, perhaps as a socket joint like many popular dolls today, then it would be incapable of moving the way a human can.\u00a0 Though the plan for this dummy has a solid piece of wood as the neck, it is joined in the sack of the body to chains that anchor it to the ‘rib’ armature in three places making sure that it’s movements are connected to the\u00a0 movements of the chest and arm area.<\/p>\n
This is only a snippet of how much I’ve thought about the mechanics of this thing.\u00a0 And, as a full blown project, a life size project, I think it would creep me out too much to ever make it.\u00a0 Though, perhaps a small sized mock-up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"