Stiches - cor ain't you all technical n that... I just use gaffa tape.
No - really - I do.
The amount of prop making I used to do that involved carving high density foam with scaples - now it works reeeeaaaaallly well whilst they are sharp - but when they start to dull it can sometimes stick in the foan and not slice smoothly. If you are being lazy and not changing blades regularaly enough you can get caught out... espescially when it then shifts and cuts again - kinda shoots through the foam at warp speed and through various intersecting bits of flesh too.
Fingers, thumbs, hands, wrists (the back of... yeah, that was a close call), arms and thighs - anything that is directly in the firing line so to speak - sliced and diced them all at some point.
I used to put everything into my work - blood sweat and tears!
Never completely lost a body part - and even a dull scaple blade is fecking sharp when it comes to slicing flesh (muscles and tendons too
), and the cuts were usually done so fast they just didn't hurt, seemed not to bleed for like a minute or two (unless curiosity got the better of me occasionally and I went "oooooh" poke-a poke-a) and were lovely neat edges that simply stuck back together with a bit of gaffa tape.
Couple of days and tear it off and it's good as new.
Those days are behind me and now and I'd probably faint - turning into a right wuss in my old age.
