German bisque head refreshing and restringing

 

This little doll needs to be put back together.

Some previous DIY work involved stringing her with wire?

The previous work included glueing back one knee socket at the wrong rotation.

There are also no hooks in the lower legs. This style of stringing was a cheap/fast way for the factory to make the doll but made no allowances for future restringing. I will install hooks so that when the elastic I use fails many years down the road, the next doll doctor will have an easier job.

This is another feature of a cheap factory assembly. Elastic was glued into the lower legs and then that was pulled up by wires that hooked over the back of the head. I will make this head mount easier for future doll docs by switching it to a neck plug and hook.

Disassembled.

The wig is quite the matted mess of mohair. But it is salvageable with some time spent combing it out. The best way to comb out mohair is with a single needle. A comb will pull out too much mohair.

After the comb out.

Straws work well as curlers for small doll wigs.

Back together.

And dressed.