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What wood should I use for a mask?
I am going to make a tribal-ish mask for a costume I am working on, and I want to make it out of wood, for durability. This presents the issue of wearing it (it needs to be wearable) and weighing down my face. What are some types of wood that I can use to make the mask out of? Assume money is not an object and I will be using chisels to carve the mask (unless there is a better suggestion).
Thanks a bundle!
~Mizuti
The lightest weight wood product would be balsa wood. There are others that are lighter weight than "regular" pine, etc., too but still probably too heavy for a mask you'd actually want to wear. You could perhaps use various kinds of wood simply as forms or armatures for a mask you could wear though (thin rods or strips, thin veneers, etc).
You could also make masks out of other materials though that could be made to look like wood (or look like various other things instead), using paints or sometimes shaping or getting color into the material.
Some examples would be polymer clay, air dry clays or papier mache and paper pulp, thermoplastic plastics like ShapeLock, extruded polystyrene foam (often used for lightweigh, carvable things), polyester resin to create fiberglass, plaster cloth, or even metals, etc.
You can shape most any material in one way or another.
Polymer clay, for example, can be shaped almost any way desired (just by hand or with various tools when raw, or "carved," drilled, etc., after curing/hardening).
It can also be used in thin sheets as veneers or have an armature inside it (WireForm mesh, for example) as well.
It can also simulate wood quite convincingly, in various ways.
If you want to check out some ways to make masks, using polymer clay and other materials, look on this page at my site:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/heads_masks.htm (click on the whole section called MASKS)
And if you're interested in making them from polymer clay, also check out some of the other pages at the site:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/armatures-perm.htm
http://glassattic.com/polymer/sculpture.htm
http://glassattic.com/polymer/carving.htm
http://glassattic.com/polymer/faux--turquoise_wood.htm (> WOOD)
http://glassattic.com/polymer/other_materials.htm (> Polyester Resin)
....and more on using polyester resin with fiberglass cloth:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090719094548AAi8ojU
and maybe:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/mixing_media.htm
And here's some info on ShapeLock (and PolyMorph, and even Friendly Plastic will also comes in colors/metallics):
http://www.google.com/images?q=ShapeLock+PolyMorph
http://www.google.com/images?q=Friendly+Plastic
and on (the denser, extruded type of) polystrene foam:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100325153349AA9Aq4W (links inside)
HTH,
Diane B.
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