Broken Gothic Arches with Electric Candelabras

Welcome to my first instructable! This is a project I was paid to do for a Halloween Party for a bar in Nashville in 2005. I created these broken gothic arches with candelabras out of styrofoam and pvc. This is the only project that I have actually documented, so I thought it would make for a decent first go at creating an 'able. I hope you enjoy it, and can actually have some fun making these neat props. Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

Step 1

I was able to get quite a bit of these styrofoam sheets from a friend who worked for a local contractor. They were happy to get rid of these old concrete forms. However, if I were to do this again, I would probably use the pink insulation sheets available from one of the bog box home stores. Cutting styrofoam is a huge mess that leaves lots of polystyrene beads EVERYWHERE!

Comments

[tinker234]

wow amazing i think i might make some for a room in my home

[l8nite]

awesome, a shame the pics are so small = ( I've found that the best way to cut styrofoam is with a serrated knife and use straight up and down cuts, this means cutting on an edge of a table and can be tricky with thinner pieces of material, it's not totally beadless but its a lot less than any other method except a hotwire. Thank you for sharing and welcome to the world of ible posters !

[kurtnotkirk]

Hey Thanks!! Yeah, Sorry about the small pic size... I had to take the pics off of another site I had uploaded them too, after the originals were lost in a hard drive crash, and they had to be reduced in size for that site.