BJ GUYER: So, say I want to give him a little,
like a little tuft of hair.
A little triangle of hair, here.
Instead of just gluing it on,
you're always going to have that,
that kind of unfinished edge.
Well to get around that,
first of all, let me cut this.
Oh, quick side note.
When you're cutting fur,
try not to use scissors to cut fur,
because when you do use scissors
you cut through the nap of the fur.
You'll cut some of it off.
So if you're going to use fur,
use a blade, use a nice sharp blade
and cut from the back.
And just cut the backing of it.
That way, when you pull it away,
all that nap stays.
You keep all this.
You haven't cut it like you would with the scissors.
So when you go to lay it on your character
you're going to have that extra nap rolling over the front.
So, what I would do with this guy to mount fur.
Let me just get my disappearing marker, right here.
So I want to do,
say a triangle of fur,
like this.
So I'm gonna mark this.
Now I've got my mark line.
I'm going to go in with the Personna blade
and I'm actually going to run a little split
about an 1/8th of an inch deep,
right along that line.
And then right along the back side where the fur
is going to go,
I'm gonna go ahead and cut a little wedge of that out.
So I'll glue down
along here, along this edge.
And make sure you get glue along that front edge as well.
You can pull it back if it's a little easier,
if you want to split that open
and just get under there really well,
with the brush.
I'll do the same thing here.
Just a trick too, for working with fur,
so the blue painter's tape.
This blue masking tape
is just great to have around the shop in general.
But if you're working with fur a lot,
and you're tired of the nap getting caught in everything...
like these edges,
I don't want this getting caught,
so I'll put a little tape on it.
Turn it back over,
and then pull it back
and that way all the, it's all taped out of the way.
Okay?
And this isn't strong enough to pull it out of the fabric,
which is great, but it is enough to hold it back real easily.
I'll do this side as well.
There, now we have a nice, clean edge to work with.
I don't want to get any glue on that.
[Hairdryer]
Alright, I'm gonna kind of rush this.
I would let this dry a little more,
in a real situation,
but because of time, I want to go ahead and show you guys.
So what I'll do with this,
is pull this front edge back
and I'm going to set the fur down in there.
Leave a little bit of an overlap.
And then just used your fingers
and press it down into that crease.
You may have to finesse it.
The glue, glue has some forgiveness to it,
you know if you need to lift it back out
and push it back in.
But basically what we're doing is creating a hairline.
We're creating the appearance of punching this hair
without actually having to punch the hair in the puppet.
And uh...
And then if you look,
get a nice close-up look at this hairline,
you have a really nice,
clean hairline on the puppet.
You don't see the edge of the fabric.
See down here where we didn't glue it,
this is what it would look like,
you'd end up with that ridge,
but up here it's all disappeared
and it all looks like it's been punched into the foam puppet.
It's a great way to get a really nice, clean line
or clean effect for the character.
That's pretty much it for attaching hair.
You can always,
as an option you can always try stitching in too.
You can stitch into foam.
You don't want to pull your stitches real tight though because it'll tear.
But if you have something that you want temporary,
like a temporary wig on a character,
or something that's going to go on and then come back off later,
a couple loose whip stitches around it
with a curved needle, down into the foam
will hold it nice and secure
without making it permanent.
Again, just don't pull to tight,
because you don't want that to tear through.