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

Sasha Celebration - part 4

Restringing demonstration - the Trendon girl

Brigitte's second restring at the Sasha Celebration weekend was a Trendon girl who had become floppy.  She was a lot more complicated to restring than the Gotz girl before her. It involved using another cord (the stripy one) to help pull the main double cord through her body.  Apparently Brigitte has made a video of the whole process which will be on her website soon.

Trendon restringing 1 - checking her neck ring

Trendon restringing 2 - removing her leg

Trendon restringing 3 - using pliers to undo her leg hook

Trendon restringing 4 - removing her head

Trendon restringing 5 - inspecting the neck hook

Trendon restringing 6 - fascinated audience

Trendon restringing 7 - only the arms still attached

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

Trendon restringing 9 - adding string to elastic to make the ends lie flat

Trendon restringing 10 - looping through the pull cord

Trendon restringing 11 - the elastic and pull cord all wrapped around her hand, threading the cord through the neck

Trendon restringing 12 - complicated elastic and pull cord loops

Trendon restringing 13 - using the crochet hook to reach the other pull cord

Trendon restringing 14 - feeding the pull cord through

Trendon restringing 15 - grabbing the pull cord through the leg hole

Trendon restringing 16 - new elastic poking through the neck hole

Trendon restringing 17 - refitting the neck hook to the neck bar

Trendon restringing 18 - hooking the elastic at the neck

Trendon restringing 19 - pulling the cords to hook the legs onto the elastic

Trendon restringing 20 - hooking on the leg

Trendon restringing 21 - hooking on the other leg

Trendon restringing 22 - standing again

The next to be restrung was a Trendon boy who was too tightly strung - see the next post.

If you've missed the three 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

Sasha Celebration - part 3

Restringing demonstration part 1 - the Gotz doll restring

Brigitte's first restring at the Sasha Celebration weekend was a Gotz doll which had become a bit floppy, so her elastic needed replacing.  It turns out that the Gotz doll was the easiest to restring as all her limbs and head are supported on the same loop of elastic which is fastened to her neck ring with a nail through the elastic.  The following photos are in the order of restringing.

Gotz restringing 1 - off with her head

Gotz restringing 2 - making sure not to loose the leg hook

Gotz restringing 3 - dislodging the wooden neck ring from her torso

Gotz restringing 4 - putting a nail through the new elastic

Gotz restringing 5 - The new elastic secured in the neck ring

Gotz restringing 6 - Heating her neck to soften the vinyl to accept the neck ring

Gotz restringing 7 - showing how to remove the neck ring from the head with some fishing line to help (this would have been done earlier if this neck ring had been correctly in the head rather than the torso!)

Gotz restringing 8 - getting the neck ring and cord in place in her neck

Gotz restringing 9 - using a crochet hook to hold the elastic for her leg hook

Gotz restringing 10 - using a crochet hook to hold the elastic for her other leg

Gotz restringing 11 - hooking on her leg

Gotz restringing 12 - using the crochet hook to hold the elastic for her arm

Gotz restringing 13 - checking the leg hooks

Gotz restringing 14 - using pliers to tighten the leg hooks

Gotz restringing 15 - giving her to her owner

Gotz restringing 16 - all together again

Gotz restringing 17 - wearing her clothes after restringing

After the Gotz, Brigitte restrung 2 Trendon dolls - they proved much more complicated than the Gotz.  Photos in the next posts.

If you've missed the two 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