Some of the old figures

Today I started making some of the older figures I first made. Not sure if I'm going to sell them or just keep them for my personal collection. This consist of slappy, blue super hero, Sammy, the cyclops, and maybe a freddy puppet! (These are the ones I started at least for now). Every time I make a puppet I put it on eBay and sell it. I thought it would be nice to just make one of each and keep it for myself! Is that being selfish? I'm not sure if any of the other makers keep any that they make, but I started making puppets because I really like them and never keep any. I think it will also be like an inspiration for me to keep on making them! If I ever make myself the whole collection I will make a video and show all of them. I figured up that I will have about 45-47 puppets total. (This would include the basic pull strings like the celebrity puppets I've collected as well as the ones I've made with magic sculpt and the ones I've converted from the celebrity ventriloquist puppets to different puppets!)

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So here lately for the last couple weeks, my wife and I have been watching one of our nephews. He's a really sweet kid! He's only three, and he's an uncle's boy. When he's here he demands my attention so I have not been working on the puppets. Plus it's been very cold!! As soon as I do start working on them again I will let you know. If I get another order where I have to build a puppet I will also be posted on here as I build it. Until then keep warm!

Rest well Ray Guyll

Today we lost a very good puppet maker Ray Guyll. May he rest in peace. Prayers going out to the family and friends. Ray you will be missed.

Happy Halloween!

It looks like Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers has already been here! Look at all the heads, hands, and feet in the box! It looks like a total slaughter!

New resin

So I was trying to find a lighter, cheaper way to make the puppet heads and hands instead of magic sculpt so I decided to try a smooth on product called free-form sculpt. Not too sure if I like it! It looks like magic school except for the hardener is brown instead of a dark gray! In the original resin is almost like Goo! It's really super soft and even when you mix it with The hardener it still doesn't harden up like magic sculpt! I went on and filled one of my molds with it though just to see how it would work. It says on the container that it turns into a plastic like when it's dried after 24 hours! Here's a picture of The containers. Tomorrow I'll show you what the product looks like whenever straight out of the mold. After it's in the mold it looks just like magic sculpt though! 

Sleep! Aw!

Normally I have a horrible case of insomnia, but here lately I've had the opposite of insomnia! It feels good to get some sleep, but then again since I'm not used to sleep I'm tired all day! It's kind of like I'm tired but you just don't feel like doing anything! Oops! I could just be being lazy! LOL! I've actually been working a lot of my full-time job so I don't have much time to work on the puppets. I have a couple of puppets in mind that I'm going to go ahead and start tomorrow though. I hope that they work out good. Also I've noticed a couple of my customers I had bought puppets that their friends (on several customers), are calling me the shiny puppet man! LMAO! It's really funny actually I like it! I've seen some of the other puppet makers where their customers called her puppets junk! So to be called the shiny puppet man is not so bad! LOL 

A puppet building book!

I've been asked many times how to build a puppet and I can tell a lot of people, but if they are like I am, i'm a hands-on person. The number one suggestion that I do have for people is how I learned how to build puppets. If you go to puppets and props.com The site is owned by Mike Brose. He wrote the book called "puppet making can be fun"! It is a really good book to learn by. I highly recommend this book, for this is how I got started on making puppets. And if you have any questions, Mike Brose or myself will be more than happy to answer any questions. Any of the puppet makers for that matter would probably help you out with any questions. But don't sell the puppets to make a living, I tried that and it did not work! You got to make the puppets for the love of the art of ventriloquism! I did it to start off because I love ventriloquist puppet's. I got my first puppet when I was a young kid at probably around five years old. I have been collecting them every sense! So I originally started off just making puppets that I wanted for my collection. But then I got really sick and in a financial crisis and the only thing of any value that I knew I had was the puppets. So now I make puppets to sell only so I can get the money to buy more products to Buy and build more puppets mainly for my collection! But if you're really interested in making puppets I would highly recommend you go to the site at puppetsandprops.com and buy the book from Mike Brose and get started on step by step instructions today!