Northern wing of the estate.
A stone-paved path leads to Morezmore Studio.
Inside you find:
25 pieces Armabones
Size C, accepts 2mm wire
If you’ve ever wrestled with building stable, flexible, and repeatable armatures for your felted creatures, wire puppets, or clay sculptures, this might be the game-changer you’ve been waiting for.
Why I made Armabones: I needed something better than gluing or freehand wrapping wire. I wanted to make armatures faster. I wanted to eliminate jiggling and wobbling in the completed skeleton. In short, I wanted speed, precision, durability, stability, ease of use, and versatility.
The Morezmore Armabones system is a modular solution for building stable, flexible, and repeatable armatures for your needle-felted sculptures, wire puppets, or clay figures.
Key Features:
- Precision 3D-printed with consistent hole alignment
- 4 sizes of Armabones: A for 1mm wire, B for 1.5mm wire, C for 2mm wire, D for 2.5mm wire, for building armatures from tiny (couple of inches tall) to huge (couple of feet tall)
- The holes don’t cross, so you can route wires in clean, non-interfering paths - ideal for building spines, limbs, chest, wings, ears, horns, puppet rig ports, and more.
- Incredibly versatile - you can use them to build any kind of creature: humans, animals, birds, crabs, dinosaurs, insects and even furniture.
- Made in USA, by Morezmore, tested in real puppet and figure construction
So, what are Armabones?
They’re tiny 3D-printed connector cubes - sort of like dice. (Incidentally, the archaic name for dice is "bones", which inspired the name "Armabones"). Each cube has precisely positioned holes for threading aluminum wire. Each hole is sized just right to hold wire securely without wiggle. The holes don’t cross, so you can route wires in clean, non-interfering paths - ideal for building spines, limbs, chest, wings, ears, horns, puppet rig ports, and more.
There are 4 sizes of Armabones: A for 1mm wire, B for 1.5mm wire, C for 2mm wire, D for 2.5mm wire
Think of Armabones as joint builders. They let you:
Quickly create modular armatures with consistent structure
Keep your wire paths clean and parallel, minimizing wire weakening through twisting
Fuse multiple wires together with shrink tubing after they exit the cube to form sturdy limbs or backbones
(It’s also possible to twist the wires between cubes and skip the tubing, but I personally don’t like twisting - it speeds up metal fatigue.)
These little cubes are incredibly versatile - you can use them to build any kind of creature: humans, animals, birds, crabs, dinosaurs, insects and even furniture. Whether it’s a full-body puppet or a delicate creature with spindly legs, Armabones help you bring it to life with more control and less frustration.
The photos show armatures built with Armabones - a small cat named Luna (4" tall) and a T-rex dinosaur Austy (13" long).
Visit our Patreon to see the lates builds.
Tools and materials needed to build an Armabone armature:
Armabones, 5 pieces for basic armature, more for more complex builds
Aluminum wire
Heat shrink tube (dual wall, with adhesive) 4-9 mm, about 2' (look for heat shrink tubing listings in our store)
Heat gun
Flat nose pliers (such as M00202)
Wire cutters (such as M00947)
Wire Conversion Chart (GA to mm)
Gauge | mm (approx.) |
34 | 0.16 |
32 | 0.20 |
30 | 0.25 |
28 | 0.32 |
26 | 0.40 |
24 | 0.51 |
22 | 0.64 |
20 | 0.81 |
18 | 1.02 |
16 | 1.29 |
14 | 1.62 |
12 |