Maintenance Stringing Help

Hey! So I don't have a Miss Orc myself but I am quite experienced in stringing, I'm wondering whether it's worth doing something like this:

1. Use your V2 for the arms but with the legs do 1 string through both legs & add hot glue sueding (in the torso & hips) to counteract the loss of tension?

Or

2. Use your V2 for the arms, and 1 string for the legs but allow 1 part of the string to sit inside the torso and the other part stretched up to the S hook in the head. You might be able to use a smaller string for the legs and still get the tension / poseability. Might still need some glue sueding to reduce the kicky torso though.

I hope that helps and best of luck!

 

I have a doll whose neck is too narrow for the body loops so I have done it like your V2 and added another loop for the neck (yellow on the graph below; can be a non-stretch material) that the body elastic is attached to. The extra string loop (yellow) then goes through the neck and attaches to the s-hook.

Like this:

 

Have you considered wiring her legs? There is a range of gauges of the coated wire available. I don't know how much bigger she is than a 70cm, but I've seen 80cm dolls wired with 2 wires in each leg if one heavier gauge wasn't wanted.

Do you have any snapping/shifting issues with the arms or is it just the legs being the issue?

 

Oh, that's a nice solution - My mind went straight to thinner elastic for the body and legs so 4 thicknesses could fit through the neck, but that might not work for a much heavier doll.

Teddy

 

In my opinion, I have not found an amount of tension that makes Miss Orc specifically not a nightmare to pose. Before I sold mine, I restrung her like 5x with different amounts of string (all in the way that you’ve strung V2, I’ve never done an Shook in the torso like v1), hot-glue sueded her, and then wired her from her arms into her legs. It took all of this to get her to sit without splaying her hips, and even then, any minor imbalance of tension between the two legs jerks her torso sideways even with sueding making her less volatile. In my restrings, I found that if I restrung her until her hips worked normal, her torso was constantly snappy, and if I strung her so that her torso wasn’t snappy, her hips were loose and floppy. The seller I bought her from also mentioned her being difficult to pose, and I, in turn warned the person who bought her off me.

I genuinely don’t know what bonelace does with their 3D printed girl that makes her so much less awful to handle, but I have been in this hobby since 2015, and I’ve restrung a lot of dolls, and I physically cannot get this specific doll to cooperate. I have a notoriously bad body (namely the nobilitydoll muscular female body, with its notoriously easily dislocated butt) but all that body needed was tight pants to keep the butt in check. This body just doesn’t work as well in solid resin as it does in the lighter 3D printing filament/resin.