Sasha Celebration - part 5

Restringing demonstration - the Trendon boy who was strung too tightly

Brigitte restrung the Trendon boy in the same way as the Trendon girl before him.  His original stringing was way to tight and it was amazing that his chest wasn't very caved.  He proved quite a struggle to unstring, and seemed much more comfortable once his new stringing was in place.

Trendon restringing 1 - undoing his leg hook

Trendon restringing 2 - capturing his leg hook

Trendon restringing 3 - his head with the old tight stringing attached

Trendon restringing 4 - getting the old stringing out from his neck (really fiddly and tight)

Trendon restringing 5 - removing the old stringing

Trendon restringing 6 - looping the thread looped through his neck ring

Trendon restringing 7 - the thread looped through his neck ring ready to help get the new stringing in place

Trendon restringing 8 - tying the reef knot in his new elastic

Trendon restringing 9 - putting the thread through the new elastic to pull it through his neck ring

Trendon restringing 10 - new elastic looped through his neck ring

Trendon restringing 11 - putting the pull cord through his new elastic

Trendon restringing 12 - pulling the cords through his leg hole

Trendon restringing 13 - the pull cords go behind his arm elastic

Trendon restringing 14 - pulling the cords past the arm elastic

Trendon restringing 15 - pulling the cords through his legs

Trendon restringing 16 - hooking his leg onto the elastic

Trendon restringing 17 - a third hand was needed to hold him as his second leg was about to go on

Trendon restringing 18 - second leg goes back on

Trendon restringing 19 - standing tall and proud again and much more comfortable

The Gotz and Trendon stringing differences were interesting to observe - Gotz stringing uses one piece of elastic for all four limbs and the head, whereas Trendon uses a separate piece of elastic for the arms.

If you've missed the four previous posts about the Sasha Celebration you can find them at:

Part 1 - http://dollmum.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/sasha-celebration-part-1.html

Part 2 - http://dollmum.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/sasha-celebration-part-2.html

Part 3 - http://dollmum.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/sasha-celebration-part-3.html

Part 4 - http://dollmum.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/sasha-celebration-part-4.html