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Symmatrix Special user 553 Posts |
I am experimenting with sugar glass and I have had some sucess but I am still trying to think of how to make it into a light blub shape.
Then I can perform the eating a lightbulb trick. Thanks again Best Regards Symmatrix
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rkrahlmann Regular user 168 Posts |
Get a hold of some books on making theatrical props. However, if you've been having success so far, you might experiment with a mold made from a real light bulb.
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camikesrd Regular user Richmond,Virginia 103 Posts |
There is a book that may be in some large librarys. "Sugar Work - Blown and pulled Sugar Techniques" by Peter T. Boyle 1988. It is a book for Chefs . There are only four pages explaining useing molds. It tells how to make a sugar champaine glass. It also has recipes for melting and coloring the sugar.he molds are made of ceramoc or plastic. Buy two bubble packed lightbulbs, staple them together and you have a mold.
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Symmatrix Special user 553 Posts |
After experimenting with the sugar glass, I found that it melts quite fast while holding in the hand. I presume that the heat that gives out from the hand makes the sugar glass melt quite fast.
Therefore, is there any other way that to make the sugar glass not melt or an alternative method? Thanks Symmatrix I can quite agree with you. Thanks for the guidance and advice. Thanks Symmatrix
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kaytracy Inner circle Central California 1793 Posts |
While I am no expert in the sideshow arts, I have been -playing with sugar- for a little while. It can be blown, just like glass, and while you can make lovely items with it, you can get injured as it is SHARP, just like glass! Now I will not say there is not a way to eat it safely, we do it all the time, but I have cut myself on my creations when they break, and trust me ... the blood is real! (It also ruins the sugar art!)
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martini Special user delta, pennsylvania 548 Posts |
Greetings Symmatrix: you need to visit a store that supplies cake decorating and candy making supplies. They have a mold that is one half of a light bulb. You can buy two, trim away the edges so that both can be clipped together, and cut a pouring hole to pour the sugar mix into it. Let it run around the inside till hardened and then pop apart the mold. These molds are about $2 each. The only reason I know about this is that a local school just made up a dozen for a play that they are doing and one of my employee's children made up the sugar bulbs.
Hope that this helps. All the Best Marty |
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Symmatrix Special user 553 Posts |
Thanks Marty,
This is the information which I have been looking for all the time... Thanks pal Symmatrix
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MacGyver Inner circle St. Louis, MO 1419 Posts |
Just wondering, because I think I saw this in another forum, but would a lightbulb made out of sugar glass be usable with the "Exploding Lightbulb" effect?
Does sugar glass shatter like real glass? |
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procyonrising Special user New York 698 Posts |
Re: Martini
I don't think filling in a lightbulb mold would work. However, let me offer some logic: 1. You can't get an even spread if you're filling a hole. 2. To get an even spread, you're going to have to fill the bulb with alot of sugar - making the thing look fake. Here's what to do: Just get one half of a lightbulb mold. Make a little base of clay (or play-doh) and rest the bulb mold in it, making it level. GREASE THE MOLD, with butter or pam. Put your sugar solution in a bowl, then, using your fingers, "spritz" the sugar solution onto the mold (kinda like splattering paint with your fingers). Wait until it dries, then apply another 2-3 coats. Wait 24 hours for it to dry... When you're done, carefully take your half-bulb out (which will come out because you've GREASED the mold). Put it aside and repeat the process. Now you have 2 halves. Put them together and use a sugar solution to bind them together. Use a file to trim down the edge. BE CAREFUL and your end product should look very realistic. This is the method that most sculptors use to make molds (with the exception that they make molds out of plaster...). This is the only method I can think of that makes sense. (If you don't believe me, try it the other way and re-read this when you fail). Hope it helps... |
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Todd Robbins V.I.P. New York 2922 Posts |
When the audience sees a ball floating in the air without a cloth covering it or anything else around it, the first thing they think is "there's a thread holding it up". They are right and there's not much in the way of mystery or magic in it.
I have eaten more than 4,000 REAL lightbulbs. In each performance I have to address the fact the EVERYONE thinks the lightbulb is made of sugar. I work very hard to prove them wrong. Therefore it seems a little silly to me that you are going to a great deal of trouble to do something that will fool NO ONE. This is just the opinion from someone that has been a professional glass eater for about twenty years. |
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actorscotty Veteran user wilmington nc 397 Posts |
Just a bit of a cheer for Todd RobBins, a real prefessional. Of all the "working acts" glass eating is one I never tried. Hats off to one who does it ,especially on a regular basis.It is a little bit like "human pincushion', I did that for many years before I even heard about a way of faking it... old sideshows were as real as it gets
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EddyRay Special user United States Of America 525 Posts |
Eat a real one, like me
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DavidEscapes Inner circle I'm Special! 1003 Posts |
I agree. Faking a stunt like this damages it for performers and for the audience. Personally I feel that magicians should steer clear of sideshow skills and vice versa. Unless the magician/sideshow performer has a solid knowledge of what they are performing and perform it the way it is meant to be done.
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web New user Roanoke, VA. 25 Posts |
I read that you couldn't explode anything other than light bulbs with the Exploding Lightbulb. Does anyone think it would be possible to make a beer bottle made of sugar or breakaway glass explode with this effect?
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Slim Price Inner circle 1935 - 2006 1326 Posts |
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Freak Prodigy Inner circle NYC & LA 1805 Posts |
Just eat real glass
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Chance Inner circle 1385 Posts |
~A question for Todd --
After 4,000 real light bulbs, what condition are your teeth in? Have you needed any special work done on your molars, for example (or anything else for that matter?) And if not, how did you avoid that part? Thanks in advance... Chance |
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Todd Robbins V.I.P. New York 2922 Posts |
It has taken a toll on my teeth. I once lost a filling working on a Saturday afternoon of a three day weekend. I couldn't get to dentist until Tuesday. I was working Coney Island at the time and ended up doing about twenty five shows with the filling out and the tooth exposed. Ain't show business grand?
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Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
Todd please take this question seriously...
When something happens like that and your tooth nerves are exposed and subject to intense pain and further damage...why didn't you substitute another bit (no pun) in the act? Is integrity toward what you do and the audience that strong or what? I'd be running for the Puppets or something.
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Chance Inner circle 1385 Posts |
It is indeed!
Maybe you didn't run for puppets as Doug said, but I bet you did most of your chewing on the other side that week! (And the week after that.....) |
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