A reborn doll gets her arm fixed

This is 'Crystal', a reborn doll who has come to get her arm fixed.
What is wrong with her arm?

Well, there is a wire sticking out of it!

Wire is not typical inside a reborn's body......this could be interesting......

Here is the usual start to a doll repair.
Off with the head!

Only to find the wire twisted up inside the body.
Was this wire twisted like that originally? Or did it get like that with lots of play?


Further dissection (ie stuffing removal and poking around) reveals that the wire originally stretched from arm to arm and had broken where it was sticking out of the arm.
I still don't know the purpose for all those twists inside the body but once I extracted the broken wire remnant from the lower arm, straightened out the wire,  bent over the broken end and wrapped it.....I got this:

Enough wire to stretch from arm to arm again but without twists in the body.
That should work?

Wire re-positioned down the arm, Stuffing re-stuffed and head attached again.
Many reborn dolls have their head and limbs attached with plastic zip ties and this one was no different.
She is ready to go home.

The dark blotches on her are from leached dye from her owners clothing. She will go home to try applications of Benzoyl Peroxide to remove them. This is an ingredient in some acne creams and it is quite useful to remove unwanted color..... but beware, it will remove color from your clothes and towel so be careful what it comes in contact with!