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The Theatre Props Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Theater Properties, Materials and Construction

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As an amateur prop and model builder I stumbled across this book after first reading Thurston James' bible on molding and casting. Although not as comprehensive as that book, and feeling a little dated, this book nonetheless is packed with useful, surprising and inspiring information. Some of the projects he describes do rely on a pretty well equipped workshop but there is still plenty here that anyone could attempt.

The Book has several interesting ways of doing props. It is detailed and has plenty of illustrations to use as examples.

I bought this book as a gift for Christmas 2008. I was visiting there last week and the book was sitting on the kitchen table looking very used. He says he uses it all the time and just loves it. I'd say that was a very good rating!

"The Theater Props Handbook" is a fantastic guide to making a almost any stage or movie prop you could need. This is a fairly detailed work with good (but Black and White) photos showing the most important steps and the provided examples are generic enough to be applied to other projects (wood grains and other finishes, for example).

I learned a good bit and picked up some interesting ideas just by paging through the book. This will likely be my "go to" guide for hard to build projects for a long time to come.

Recommended! I also recommend The Prop Builder's Molding & Casting Handbook, by James