Final Notes

Now, he is read to be disassembled and painted. And I hope that I will be able to put him back together again and the paint won't alter his movement.

One interesting final note

As I played with the completed acrobat, someone noticed how much his feet slide back and forth on the slippery flat surface of the steps. Maybe if he would not slide so much, he would move better. Let's wrap the steps in a table clothe. It didn't work. He fell off right away. How interesting that even such a small thing, as the slipperiness of the steps, makes a fundamental difference in the movement of the acrobat! Maybe if I started to build him on a non-slippery surface and set everything (weight, string, balls, pegs, etc.) on it, I could get a figure which worked on such steps.