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Hey I am making spring into action and saw this video. The paper this guy is using seems to work very well. Does ayone know what paper it is so I can make my life easier by getting easy to work with paper.

This is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10zyL1YY ... ed&search=

Please tell me what kind of paper this guy is using.

Thanks!

looks like thin card

where do you get that kind of paper?

its not paper its just normal card i think, you should be able to get some at an arts and crafts store

Ok thanks!

Is there any other kind of paper that works well when making spring into action?

I find that elephant hide works extremely well (in the UK the paper is sold by Artoz as part of their Rustik range).

thank you saj. I tried to find a place that i could buy it from but no where seemed to sell elephant hide paper.

Is there any other paper that works well?

Elephant Hide is also sold under the name Wyndstone Marble or Elefantenhaut, maybe you will have more luck asking for these.

some people use aqua-colour-papier for wetfolding (instead of elefantenhaut). it's strong, thick and very good suitable for such foldings.

thanks! i searched again and found a place that sells wyndstone paper

And also i found i was doing somthing wrong on the spring into action. after you make all the precreases i rolled it up into a tube the wrong way! i made one the right way and all the twists where great but it still didnt spring. I'm guessing it just comes with practice. Am i right?

about how many tries does it usualy take to get a working spring?

I dunno. Maybe 250. Maybe more.
Depends on a mixture of the type of paper with how soft the creases are, because I'm sure if they're too sharp they won't spring back.

250?

i have been creasing as hard as i can and made another one that doesn't work. (of course )

i will try making another with softer creases.

is it ok if i tape the top of the top spring so it doest come undone? or will that just make it not work?

And would it ruin the soft crease idea if you flatten the model when you are finished?

I noticed something else too. some springs like this one:

[img]http://www.ulitka.net/origami/16b.jpg[/img]

have only 5 springs but others like this one:

[img]http://mickael.courouble.free.fr/photos ... MG6433.JPG[/img]

have 7 springs. my spring into action has five springs but i am following the cp correctly (trust me..i checked) are the 7 spring ones using a diferent cp or am i just doing it wrong? does it really matter how many springs you have anyway?

What directions do you use?

Okay, let's see. When he says it could be 250 or not, he is just joking around, saying it might take 250 tries to get it right, or less, or more.

And as it was diagrammed (in Origami in Action), the spring had 7 discs, not 5. There are variations of it though, which may have fewer or more.

And you do want hard creases, just not ultra sharp creases.