didn't want him to suffocate

Box in a box

Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

>Seems like you could be fine with a corrugated cardboard box. Slip your crate in a close fitting cardboard box, fill any voids with packing material and tape all the seams well with wide box tape would seem sufficient to me.

Tommy

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Jake (So MN)

>Be carefull of foaming to a custom fit. In a prior life pacaging tv's etc. for shipping we used a two part expanding foam to ship with. Great stuff, but it gets very hot during activation (to hot to touch) and can exert quite a bit of pressure as it expands. The Bug looks a little on the fragile side...

Just me .02

Jake

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John Lucas

>Mike

I always wrap a piece in tissue paper and then bubble wrap. Then I double box this. To ship my Fertility experiment I had to make custom made foam and carboard supports that went from the box to the sturdier portions of the piece. I wanted any impact to be transferred to the solid portions and tried to make the fragile portions sort of float inside. If you do this you'll need to make some pretty elaborate packing instuctions. Of course those are for the buyer because we know it's not going to come back to you.

The best way by far I don't know how to tell you to get it done. I have a mail order place in town that uses spray in foam to pack work. You wrap the piece up good in plastic and they spray foam in, you put the work in, they cover it with another layer of plastic and they spray more foam. It is unbelievable good. I shipped my piece that had 30 some miniature goblets on the top and I watched the guys loading the plane drop in rather hard on the ramp. Not a thing brocken. The problem is it's about 10 thousand to buy one of these machines. It's not the same foam as the spray insulation. It's much softer.

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Pete in Holland, MI

>Love the air holes. Your workmanship on the sculpture is very good, but borders on the edge of wierd. Looking forward to seeing what comes next from your twisted imagination.

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Mark Kauder, Phenix City, AL

>Mike,

I had problems shipping my lacquered pieces - to much abrasion from some packing materials. So like John, I wrap in tissue paper, but then pad with foam beads (not the bio-degradable ones). Regular foam beads are amazingly none abrasive, and provide great support w/o requiring much compressive force.

Mark

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Gerry in Maryland

>Hey Mike,

I bought a ceramic sculpture in Santa Fe and had it shipped to Maryland. The gallery used a double box and the same foam that John described.

Gerry

(Poor lil critter, don't have a brain so papa's lookin out for him!)

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Raymond Overman in SC

>Everyone's a little bit strange except me and you, and I'm not too sure about you.

Great work Mike. Good luck with the show. Break a leg... but not because you didn't pack the bug correctly.