The Cone Issue #9 Spring 2016 | Page 74

What is the simplest item to create in terms of time and what has been one of your more time consuming items? Funny, one item sort of has both of those titles. We make a product called rubber glass. It’s a clear rubber product that simulates different types of clear, broken glass. It’s used where ever you need a scene that involves broken glass and close contact with actors. it’s flexible rubber, so it’s very safe. The majority of the rubber glass we sell is in 1 pound increments of jagged shards which are reasonably quick to pour up, cure and then cut into jagged dangerous looking shards, however recently we had one customer order 250 pounds of rubber glass and they wanted it to resemble broken safety glass. So that has to be cut into 1/4” inch squares. It took our whole team many, many days of endless cutting to fill the big plastic buckets full of the tiny little bits. We’ve done countless projects that have taken a lot of time because of the complexity and detail, but cutting those millions of tiny little rubber squares quickly comes to mind. Puto 74 THE CONE - ISSUE #9 - SPRING 2016