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[olgathehandmaid]

My mom used to say this about my toys as a kid... Your puppets live a lot of life, it natural that once they absorb enough love; they can't contain it anymore.

[m.maclellan]

Love the 2nd design for the "crown feathers" !
Best of luck building !

[hellboy]

Hello. I've been a professional sculptor for decades and have worked with many plastic materials. All these types of products become brittle over time due to the loss of moisture from their compounds, which are volatile. They break sooner or later. Even more so in puppets, which are exposed to a lot of stress and work. That is why traditional puppeteers use wood for the volume of their puppets and metal for the mechanical parts. Those materials you are using are very good for experimenting, testing and sketching...but if you want durability there is nothing like carved wood and metal. I make this comment with all my good intentions and as an admirer of your work. I hope you find a solution. A cordial greeting from Spain.

[KurtCollier]

in a way, the plastic has been a gift. it gave you puppets that were strong enough to get you here. And they held together just long enough for you to be ready and able to recreate them. That is also a gift because we always get better with repetitions. Dabchick showed you that when you redo one of these, you get an opportunity to make them better. the new broken ones are just telling you that now you get to make all of your creations better. I hope you are ready for some attention, I suspect that the v 2.0 of these will get you a few more subscribers.

[kubacube]

the amount of work necessary to put these little things to life is absolutely mindblowing. Keep up the good work!

[The.Quiet.Kid.]

There is something strange I'd like to suggest; if possible, when creating the new design for Dabchick, you could create a small compartment in any part of the body that doesn't require any complex mechanisms, and in the compartment, store a tiny fragment of the original Dabchick. Call me crazy, but I feel like the sentiment of keeping just a little bit of the Dabchick we have known and loved for so long in the new design is important, like the 'heart'%of him, I suppose. Either way, I'm eager to watch how this rehabilitation ends, and get our old friend back.

[billbombadil]

If all else fails, taking up whittling might be useful. Orange wood, or Ash wood are both tough, but light weight materials for making a long lasting puppet; And you can always take the saw dust of the wood you're using, mix with wood glue, and make a paste to fill the cracks, and make little improvements to FIT THE BILL 🦆😅

[thecanadianbeast]

I hope the whole resin fiasco turns out to be the worst part in the end

[galvinowens]

This guy's voice is so relaxing and calming. A great story teller voice and great singer.

[thevoid]

You know, I was not the biggest fan of the moving feather crown design with the first passes, but this most recent design has entirely changed my mind because I can now see the vision you have. It makes him more expressive and now that it's more subtle I feel like it suits him wonderfully. Your ideas and problem-solving will never cease to amaze me

[ruaridhmackenzie]

Barnaby you need to look into moulding all your finalised printed puppet parts and casting them in some kind of reinforced polyurethane plastic or rubber, perhaps a thin layer of glass or carbon fibre woven fabric would do. The printer is a terrific boon for prototyping but by no means a final solution. The press moulds are great but I'm unsure they would last that process.

Stress fractures and breaks can be fixed quickly with some super glue and bicarbonate of soda and sanded back.

If the area requires flex, a mix of 100% alcohol in two part epoxy leaves the glue to be flexible, experiment with the proportions.

I hope you reach a successful conclusion!

[samanthazubia]

I love hearing the problem-solving process, you're doing fantastic! 👏 What a great idea to have the side feathers static, it works so well! You'll get past the material issue for sure 😊

[aidenwallin]

Are we saying that Dabchick won't be the only disembodied head carried around by dolls anymore?

[fa]

HUGE fan of your works!
I love how they're all hand made and with each action/emote you make up a new mechanism in your puppets
It's very inspiring to me to see your behind the scenes and wip vids like this one!

[simondevine]

Amazing explanation. So happy to hear you are getting a sponsored printer, hopefully with this printer and the knowledge you have gained setting it up and configuring it, the next steps will be a breeze. Good luck and hope to see Dabchick again soon.

[bettinahooper]

I found you about six weeks ago and have gone through most of your back catalog.
Your many talents, intelligence, humanity and grace astonish me- and I’m old.
Thank You. The world needs your perspective and example right now.

[mechnaprime]

I really do prefer the second version of the feathers, it looks much better than the first! Also I'm glad that this whole ordeal had not impacted dabs sass!

[kingofthedarkarts]

Glad that printing issue was fixed! Dab chick does look much better! I do agree that first design was too big and kinda took away that feeling for dab, but now it looks awesome! you are so smart Barnaby, and your problem solving skills and engineering is really inspirational to me!

[TheThrobgoblin]

I love the new way the feathers look, the weird square holes were off putting lol. I also really like dabchick finally being told off my barnaby, he kinda earned it.

[rabidsmiles]

It's amazing to see you working on our feathered overlord. How awesome that a printer company is going to sponsor!