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color=#0000ff size=2>I would think a vacu-formed column would also allow you to
slice the back and overlap at the top for taper. But then there's that capital
to deal with (and no thanks to the designer if he/she made it a
Corinthian).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Bridgewater State College</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> usittne-bounces@mit.edu
[mailto:usittne-bounces@mit.edu] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Michael
Katz<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 20, 2007 9:07 AM<BR><B>To:</B> USITT
New England Section Mail List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Usittne] Attempting to
find a place which manufactures foamcolumns<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Patrick,
<DIV>You might try outwater supply, but I suspect that if the fluting and taper
are required, you will have to build the columns, Perhaps a wood frame with a
skin of bending luan and the seam up the back (easiest to do if the seam does
not meet but is open) then apply strips of cove molding or route a
flute into bead foam sheets and taper rip and apply that, Cover it all
with foam or sculpture coat and call it a column.</DIV>
<DIV>There used to be a foam fabricator in RI who like to do silly things for
theater, but I can not</DIV>
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<DIV>On Sep 17, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Pat Brooks wrote:</DIV><BR
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Hello everyone my name is Pat Brooks and I'm a student
Technical Director at Salem State College. We're doing a production of
Antigone this fall and I need some help locating a few items for our set. The
hardest thing to find at the moment is a company who can make us some foam
tapered and fluted together columns. These columns have an 18 in Diameter base
and taper to a 12 in diameter at the top and are approx 9' tall. All of the
companies i've run across thus far can do one or the other either tapered or
fluted but not both together. We used to get these from Apache before they
went out of business. If anyone knows of any companies which do this kind of
column creation please let me know of them or if anyone happens to have some
that we may perhaps borrow that would be greatly appreciated as well. Thanks
for any and all help that you may be able to give. <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Patrick
Brooks<BR>Student Technical Director<BR>Antigone<BR>Salem State College<BR>
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