<div dir="auto">I bought two fiber drums from Uline to make a cannon for Big Fish. It was the best easy button I could come up with. We built a chassis that could be raised for firing and used a couple confetti tubes to embellish the firing.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 24, 2025, 1:35 PM Joe via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><div dir="ltr">I need to construct a cannon for a human cannonball effect. Note that I am not actually shooting anyone out of it. Rather, we will load the actor into the front of the cannon, and then he will exit from the cannon unseen.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I first looked at trying to adapt some plastic garbage cans, but the diameter at the bottom of them, which would become the end of the cannon, is too small to permit me to load with the actor.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">So, it looks like I will need to construct it from scratch. I have never made anything using wiggle-wood (i.e. bendable ply) that had a conical shape. Though, perhaps I could cut wedge-shaped pieces and form it that way. However, I know that getting the edges of the ply to lay flat can be a challenge. <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Attached is an image of what I am considering. Though, I could take the easy way out, and create a purely cylindrical barrel.<img title="Inline image" alt="Inline image" src="cid:b504527a-c34d-b6f3-7235-0e1c9f3fbc56@yahoo.com" style="max-width:800px"><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">-Joe Dunfee<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> 717-203-8670 Cell<br></div></div></div></div></div></div>____________________________________________________________<br>
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