Recent content by lipinski

Hi Bill!I hadn't looked at those sheets in a while. You're point is well taken, I was being a little alarmist. But I stand by the main idea of my warning. Compare the vocab to fiberglass's msds. While thiers no exposure warning, the vocabulary (and physical expierence of having it on your...

This was a HOT debate when i first got into Webster Conservatory in undergrad. Webster had been doing a layer of homosote cross sheeted on top of the stock 3/4" ply deck frames, followed by another cross sheet of maso. The purpose was sound dampening. It was sort of an air quality night mare...

One thing I will say as a fellow young technician: Don't work for free. Believe it or not, your time is worth money, and believe me, thier are Production Mangers that will take advantage of you. Don't take more than 3 "trial hours", "training hours", ext.Ask various Production companies...

It's for a show. Choreographed fights. Fight Choreo is fine with it as long it doesn't break

So I've been tasked with building a 8'x8' boxing ring that doubles as a light box. My budget for this section needs to fall around 3k. I'm dropping half of it on 2 sheets of 3/4" plexi. My current plan is to build a 2x4 Butt jointed box that spans the perimeter forming a toe rail and putting a...

If you have some sheet goods in stock or stock flats and jacks you can paint them black and line the bottom portion of your scrim. Actors can walk behind them. Be sure to paint the tops. If you only have a few jacks, use Hog Troughs to pin the sheets together, one at 3' and one at 6' work nicely.

unbleached tends to take paint a tad more cleanly and is usually cheaper. Bleached will dye better if you're into that.

I'm assuming that the reason you need the bottom wagon is to prevent the legs from butterflying out. In high school, I just used 1x4 (although 1x3 works as well) with 2 (and on face 3) screws a foot or so up from the bottom. If you need them to roll, you can frame out the legs in 1x4 and then...

....splitter?

So as a Freshman in a scene design program I'm going to have to build a lot of models without a lot of income. Does anyone have a good order supplier for matte board, foam core, gesso, blades, ext. If anyone has any favorite tips for cheap supplies, or favorite modeling supplies. I'd really...

I always rent from scaffolding supply companies. Stupid cheap. Austin Scaffolding Supply would rent them for like a buck a week. If you want to buy, try Fixed 90° Cheeseborough Pipe Clamp, for 1-1/4" to 1-1/2" Sch 40 Pipe15.50 for fixed, 16 for swivel.This looks like a good rental company in...