Recent content by Kryzm

So I'm back to the drawing board. Greenware and Bisqueware are both out, since I can't find a place to get them in the area, and as I said, dress rehearsal is tonight. I'm going to attempt to break a plate and glue-drop it back together. Plaster was too soft, and the pin went right through it...

Thank you all for the suggestions. I ended up attempting to throw a plate against a tree out of frustration (and a need to prove myself more advanced than platekind), only to have it ricochet off a tree (thrown 20') onto a rock (15' down) and not even chip. I tried a spring loaded center punch...

The effect takes place in the smokehouse, instead of shooting out a knothole, curly shoots at a plate. It doesn't make a lot of sense, but our director is very particular. For last night (Tech rehearsal) I built a plate holder for the wall and drilled a hole in it, leaving about 1/4" through the...

Take an 18" piece of 1x4, attach a 4" piece parallel and flush on the end. |||| |||||||||||||||||| spring hinge a 14" piece in the gap, flush with the 18". xxx |||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||| Pull back on the hinged piece (red) and let it snap back into place. $10 gunshot.

So my company is doing Oklahoma!, and I've never done the show before, but the director wants somebody to fire a gun indoors and break a dinner plate. The idea I've been playing with so far is to have a mousetrap on the shelf behind the plate, the plate secured to the shelf on top and bottom...