Good job, did you coat it with clay?

the thread glue would definitely work on your original design. I just used screw posts and an oring to reduce the amount of parts needed lol. The down side to using screw posts though is that they dont come in very small sizes (diameter), so if one wanted to make tiny armature joints (like for hands or fingers) your original design would work best.

How well does that one hold up? Ball and joint ones are, from my experience, really good - if not a bit heavy. That one looks quite good.

Even the red ones? oh, smooth metal ones would work the best, I'd guess, though I've never really tried.

Hey Jesse, thanks a lot for this tutorial. I made this cool little horse armature with it a while back. Sorry about the "yellowness" of the picture. I didn't have any thread glue and someone told me finger nail polish works just as well... yeah... not so much. Anyways, I got a little carried away and just sort of painted the entire armature with the fingernail polish thinking it could strengthen the wooden dowels. Seems a little silly now that I think about it. Anyways, for those asking, clay does stick to it, and I didn't have any problems with the clay getting jammed in the joints or anything so it's all good, although it could just be the layer of finger nail polish that the clay is holding onto.