[Usittne] Attempting to find a place which manufactures foamcolumns

[Dirks, Arthur]

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).
 
Arthur Dirks
Bridgewater State College

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From: usittne-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:usittne-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Michael Katz
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 9:07 AM
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Subject: Re: [Usittne] Attempting to find a place which manufactures
foamcolumns


Patrick, 
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.
There used to be a foam fabricator in RI who like to do silly things for
theater, but I can not
remember who they are,


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Lunacy Abounds


On Sep 17, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Pat Brooks wrote:


	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. 
	
	
	
	
	Patrick Brooks
	Student Technical Director
	Antigone
	Salem State College
	
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