We'll start by using a large bed pillow and narrow it down to about waist width at one end with duct tape, leaving the other end wider, about the size of a man's chest. This can duct taped directly to the armature. Now we will remove the cover off another pillow and stuff about half of the stuffing inside a large kitchen trash bag. Shape and arrange the stuffing to approximate a man's arm with duct tape. Seal off the open end and attach that to the end of one of the armature's shoulder sections. Repeat for the other arm and attach your Stage Hands to the ends of the arms with some duct tape. Now you can make a slit down the back of the waist to the bottom of the rear of your tuxedo pants. Lay the pants into the bottom of the coffin and wrap the ends of the slit to both sides of the actuation lever. You can tack down these ends with a staple gun to the floor of the coffin. Make two legs out of your pillow stuffing and trash bags and tuck these down the legs of the pants. It's time to dress your dead fred. Outfit him with shirt, tie and tuxedo jacket. Finally you will cut a hole out of the bottom of your foam filled prop head and open a passage way into it nearly to the top of the head. You can use contact cement to glue the head on or put two or three screws through the neck of the head into the PVC pipe to hold it in place.

   There are only a couple more details before your project is complete now! Cut your wood curtain rod to the desired length for the front side and both ends and screw your rod ends to each of the three rods. These and the 7 mounting brackets will all need to be sealed with your clear wood sanding sealer and then painted with brilliant gold paint. Once they are dry, coat them generously with your clear lacquer to protect the paint. It is important to note here that if you skip the clear coat step recommended here you will have badly tarnished hand rails immediately, as the brilliant shine that makes these look convincingly like brass rails will go away. Now you will need to center each rod to each end and the front of the coffin and screw on the mounting brackets. The brackets will allow you to slip your hand rails on and off for each use instantly.

   Next we need to measure the distance from the bottom of the kick plate of and the carpet and cut our black double knit fabric to attach to the kick plate on both ends and across the front of the coffin with velcro and just hover above the carpet. This will keep the TOTs from seeing the air line and power cords going up to the underneath of the event. Not to mention the sound system you will be using to give your guy a voice. The system I use to detect and trigger this event as well as give him a voice can be found here. 

   And there you have your very own Coffin Coronary! Congratulations for undertaking a rating 5 on the challenging scale! Send me a picture of your finished event so I can post that here on my website under reader's props! See this one in action here.

Rest In Pieces,

Death Lord