Dollieh Sanctuary

Sooooooooooo . . . Months back, when I first removed the head from one of my Integrity Toys dolls, I very stupidly did NOT wait for his head to soften in hot water long enough to remove it easily. I didn't understand how the heads and neck pegs worked, and, well . . . Now there's a huge chunk of the rim of his inner neck opening missing. I didn't realize how bad it was until I finally reunited head and body this morning after finally rerooting him, but his head doesn't stay on well. It stays, but not for very long. Does anybody have any recommendations for what I can do so he stops traumatizing the other dolls in the dollhouse when his head randomly falls off. I've heard some people have found that gluing a piece of craft foam to the neck peg can help? His neck peg and body are fine, it's just his head thats damaged.

Somebody help me, and Shailoh . . .

You can try the grape method or repair it using Surge. Do you have a pic of the damage?

maywong wrote:You can try the grape method or repair it using Surge. Do you have a pic of the damage?

I managed to glue a piece of craft foam to his neck peg that's bigger than the hole, so it's sort of functioning like the prongs on other doll neck pegs. It's working for now, but I'm not sure if it's a long term fix. At least this way the foam is soft enough that if I have to remove his head again, the foam will give and not his neck this time. I don't want to take it off again unless I have to, though, but I've also contemplated using thin bits of foam and super glue to rebuild the missing bits of the neck rim if I need to.

I don't know what the grape method or Surge are. Now I must do research. O3O