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I took a break from work yesterday, and sat down and re-strung my Granado Nuevo female body. I like Granado very much. it's a small atelier, only two years old; and the sculptor, Crocus, has enormous talent. Because of this, I wanted to sit down and look carefully at the female body and be sure that I understood how it was supposed to work and why certain decisions were made on the engineering. Parts of the way the body was constructed felt a little like "trying to reinvent the wheel by making it square". Doll companies seem to feel they have to do this, as in "We don't want the hip cuts to show, so we will make some kind of contraption inside the hip.":p (I blame Iplehouse for this). Never mind that doll owners already understand that this is a doll with joints, so there will be joint line; and I don't see how a mobility thigh cut is much different than a hip slot. Anyway, for me the problem of the female Nuevo body was the hips. The way I had it st...

So yesterday, instead of doing laundry or working, I strung together the Granado Nuevo body. It took me 3 hours. This was because I laid out the pieces, and saw this hook inside the hip piece.0_0 So I strung her together ignoring that part, and I got this: Her feet did not want to move apart, so obviously that hook thing was important; but how to string it? After several tries, I ended up doing it this way: Below: I tied off the leg strings between these two crazy loops; the string on the loops is intended to hold the head on: The rest of the legs go together like a normal body: (Cute Granado symbol on little feets): Pulling up the head strings: It was so easy to do her torso, that I ended up taking it off again to put on the arms, just so I could see what I was doing with the arm string. This body has really beautiful hands: Finally, she was all put together and Sophie's head went on top--even though Sophie is a white skin, she looks ok on the pale Normal Pink body: I am ...