Have your dolls hurt you?

Oh yeah! The most common way is with the ribbon I'm using the pull elastic, I wind it around my hand to be able to put the strength I need into it, but that always leave these deep grooves in my hands that take forever to go away and then still hurt afterwards. Second most common I guess would be a toss-up between getting pinched or getting kicked. Thankfully, no serious injuries, but it sure gives me chills reading some of the stuff others have gone through in this thread! God please be careful guys, are you ok?

 

I've had several minor injuries but the worst was I had an s hook embed itself into my hand while restringing a doll.

 

I had a doll with wobbly legs stand on the top shelf.. Bad idea

 

My first girl's default eyes had broken eye stems. Since she was my first, I didn't realize anything was amiss until I adjusted her gaze by manipulating the backs of her eyes. Lo and behold, shallow, non bloody cuts on my fingers.

Then there was the time I was restringing another girl. Her S hook slipped, cutting my finger and getting blood on her arm. I took this as a sign she was well and truly mine.

 

Yes, I have hurt myself my fingers several times when I tried to change my 70cm doll's hands...

 

I've been kicked in the, uh, chest by my old, finicky ResinSoul Li while I was repositioning her on my dresser. Another time I was doing a thorough cleaning of her and while stringing her back together, lost grip of the ribbon I was using to feed the elastic through her thigh and gave myself a bit of rope burn. First time I strung her, I used wire (bad idea but I was new to the hobby) and got a few bloody scratches. Most of my accidents happen while stringing lmao.

 

I personally have been injured but I also have had to give up on certain companies due to their extreme tight stringing methods. Doll Chateau used to be a great company but then this past couple of dolls I had to part with because I couldn't even get head off to have a face up done. Dream Valley is another company I love the look of their dolls, but string was so tight I couldn't get head off. Dollshe and even my beloved Dollstown has had tight stringing done. Thankfully not to tight as heads can come off, but I had a friend just receive her Dollstown girl body and the hook was inside neck. I have spoken to Dollstown and they will adjust the amount of length in body string. But the previous companies I I mentioned they must be using a machine to pull the string because there is no give.

 

You mean besides mental trauma when once a hook got caught inside a leg and I couldn't pull it out no matter what? xD (I could get it out in the end, but it was one of my first times restringing a doll and I cried a lot).
Yeah, I've been bitten by a joint one or two times. And one time a doll bent forward and hit me in my face. That hurt a lot.

 

I never experienced getting hurt by my dolls until I had to restring my girl Fable, whose string got so tight it start cutting into my hands. I couldn't tell you why I was pulling on it in a way that caused it to do that.

 

I had one of my EID men fall on me once… that hurt a lot… but the worst time had to be when I unboxed a Dika Doll guy and there was a very unpleasant resin smell from the box that made me feel a little bit ill…

 

Everyone who owns or has owned dolls has been pinched at some point, they hurt so bad and leave such an ugly markkkkkk.

 

I recently received my extra pair of hands in the mail and was so excited to have my doll hold stuff and pose.
But he was strung so tightly that I needed a second person to help me hold on to his arms while I wrangled his hands.
When I finally managed to attach his jointed hands, I got stuck and couldn't remove them, because they have an extra ball for posability and I couldn't get a grip on them because he was strung so tightly.
At this point my fingers hurt so much and me and my assistant were so exhausted that I just left him like that.
I'm slightly disappointed that I can't swap his hands anymore for the forseeable future, but we both really need to recover from our aching muscles before attempting to change them again. I couldn't move my arms for a week.
I dread the day I have to swap out his feet...

 

Every single time I try to dress one of my dolls I pinch myself in one of their joints xD When I had a huge SD boy I definitely had him headbutt me while I fought to get him dressed too. Apparently clothing a doll is dangerous work lol

 

Aside from pinches and little cuts from s-hooks, I once got super glue in my eye when the magnets in my Soom's headcap slammed together while I was installing them. Pro tip: make sure one magnet is fully hardened in place before you put in the next one. (':

 

Yes! I was head butted in the mouth once by my Volks F62. Girl has a huge noggin and I ended up with a busted lip. I've also had cuts from restringing. My Migidoll Cho decided he didn't like me and used his S hook to take revenge on my poor finger. I had to have my husband remove it and help me finish restringing him. It's time to restring him again and I'm dreading it.

 

Haha oh yes ! While restringing my 75cm the hook slipped and went right through my finger. Another time I was putting my 84cm on his stand and he decided to fall forward and his nose smashed on the top of my head lmfao my friend. Across the room heard it loud and clear !

 

In more ways than one!

I have a spare 68 body (waiting for his rightful head) and a head (waiting for his rightful, 73 body). One day I got curious and wanted to see if I can get a sense of what either one of them would look like as a full doll. So I attempted to put the spare head on the spare body... and nope. They would not have it at all. The elastic snapped, the head cap fell, the legs kicked...

I think they're protesting. But they leave me walking wounded.

 

Well my Hua Cheng just tried to yeet himself from the cabinet when I opened it and now i have a bruise from catching him awkwardly xD

 

Ahh, yes. The yeeting dolls. I have had a Volks SD Mark with the solid body yeet off a shelf. I caught him but he headbutted me with his huge head. I also had my Dollshe (the BIG boy) crumple on top of my head while I was trying to pose him (hurt so bad I couldn’t even curse, just cried), and I had a REALLY kicky DZ Zo nail me in the face while dressing him up and he gave me a bruise right by my eye (sold him shortly after).

Plenty of S-hooks lodging into places they shouldn’t (looking at my PD minis…), flying S-hooks, popped in the lip many times by my DC Hugh (he kicks and slaps without wiring)…augh. Painful hobby!

 

So far I've only been nipped once or twice but I'm vaguely terrified of getting an S hook caught in my skin I feel like it's inevitable for me cause I can get too zoned in and not be as careful as I should be.

 

I have been pinched, hit and kicked Oh and broken nails

 

My Hound is the primary culprit of pinched fingers. That skin between thumb and forefinger is the worst pinch of all.

 

I've definitely had joints bite me before, although Asa loves to try to headbutt me. And with that big ol delf noggin he could probably get me pretty good.

 

One of my boys always pinches me and whacks me, but my thankfully none of my other dolls are as sadistic as him (´；ω；`)
I always end up hurting my fingers whenever I have to adjust S-Hooks too.

 

i got a nasty bite from an s hook when i was adding kips to oliver D: yeeeowch! pretty sure i got a broken nail during the same incident.

 

I came here to say exactly the same

 

So far I've only squeezed a finger while snapping GuoGuo's head onto her body.
Wasn't too bad.

 

Only a scartch on a finger from a very, very tiny S hook for the hands of a 1/12 scale doll.
For some reason it was a fight to exchange these hands and i went out of it bleeding and with a bent out of shape hook.

 

Yep. Years ago I was restringing a huge doll with fantasy parts. The elastic given was not sufficient and as I was pulling it up it literally snapped off my stringing tool (destroying the tool) and embedded an S-hook into my finger. I had to go to the urgent care to get it removed. I could feel the bump of the end of the s-hook (which was very blunt, btw) pushing under my fingernail.

 

Since my bigger scale dolls (1/4 and 1/3) are vinyl (dollfie dream) none of my dolls have personally hurt me. All my resin dolls are closer to the 1/5 or 1/6 scale so they can’t do as much damage.