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scottds80 Special user Victoria, Australia 730 Posts |
I have heard somewhere before that PVC piping is a popular material to make illusions from on the cheap. Do any of you do this? What have you made and how successful has it been for you?
"Great Scott the Magician", Gippsland
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jkvand Special user Johnstown, PA 658 Posts |
Check out http://www.magicnook.com for some bountiful resources on this topic! Spellbinder is a member here, and has a lot of ideas with PVC pipe.
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owln_1 Loyal user dallas /now live by tulsa 222 Posts |
The Magicnook is really a good site, I haven't order from him yet but plan on doing so soon. I have a backdrop that is made from pvc 1" pipe that is very is to setup and tear down, my post have a set screw at the top and a 3\4" pipe that slide to the ceiling with a rubber ball on top painted gold, it's easy on the ceilings that way, the bottom set in a large coffee can (the new plastic type) filled with concrete. Owln_1
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owln_1 Loyal user dallas /now live by tulsa 222 Posts |
The Magicnook is really a good site, I haven't order from him yet but plan on doing so soon. I have a backdrop that is made from pvc 1" pipe that is very is to setup and tear down, my post have a set screw at the top and a 3\4" pipe that slide to the ceiling with a rubber ball on top painted gold, it's easy on the ceilings that way, the bottom set in a large coffee can (the new plastic type) filled with concrete. Owln_1
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
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On 2008-01-13 10:59, owln_1 wrote: A friend of mine made a backdrop frame with PVC pipe, too. For feet/stands he used heavy duty sheet music holders. He just took off the top part and the PVC plugged straight onto the telescopic poles. It worked really well. Since he salvaged them from a dumpster, the cost was reasonable.
~michael baker
The Magic Company |
Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
Jim Gerrish makes his entire backdrop from the PVC pipes, including the feet, so that the whole thing comes apart and transports in a gym bag. He uses the same principles to build an entire stage set that he has used inside gymnasiums that have no stage or cover, and his design includes a "dressing room" at the rear of the stage. When he sets up outdoors, he weighs the bottoms down with cinder blocks, or if it's not very windy, uses the same kind of rigging you would use for any tent. It's in PVC Pipe Illusion Book 1.
Professor Spellbinder
Professor Emeritus at the Turkey Buzzard Academy of Magik, Witchcraft and Wizardry http://www.magicnook.com Publisher of The Wizards' Journals |
donrodrigo Special user U.S.A. and Europe 635 Posts |
Darwin inexpensive illusion dvd,mayne has also pvc stuff.
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donrodrigo Special user U.S.A. and Europe 635 Posts |
By the way gents anyone has a fix on the razor edge of mayne's pvc?? Plans that is.
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