Quick Change fingernails?
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I sprayed a silicone mat with silicone spray, then put a tissue down and glued pairs of magnets together allowing the tissue underneath to be saturated as well to become a cast of sorts. Then filed the edges of each pair.
To get past the problem of polarity I'm just going to do all the implants, then lay a piece of plastic wrap on the finger, put two magnets atop the plastic wrap, and glue the nail to the magnets.
That way each nail is tailored to it's finger in polarity and placement.
TPE glue from vendors is too damn expensive, I think I'm going to put a few drops of acetone on a toothpick and drop them in before I pull the tweezers out, realistically I couldn't find the insertion holes in my test piece if I tried anyway.
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From what I saw in testing I really don't think your magnets are going to have enough pull being single and on edge.
Also, the decreased surface area could allow the nail to cock and point funny directions, especially since pole alignment is going to be tricky with that arrangement.
The magnets appear to be really far back for fingernails, maybe filing a recessed flat toward the end of the bone portion of the finger and gluing the magnets onto the bone would yield a more correct orientation.
I'd encourage you to do some testing before doing the modifications.
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I think I may abandon the magnet idea. I've got another idea much simpler, cheaper and easy to apply. Be right back. Gimme a day.
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Tiny magnets are a bitch to work with, already on my second trip to the acetone can to clean the super glue off my fingers.
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So I popped the fingernails on for "field testing" (one upside down) and took Bubbles to bed. This morning 4 of the fingernails were still on so 40% success. I'm going to mull this over, don't see any way to move the magnets closer to the surface without cutting.
Perhaps I can inject mineral oil and squeeze them back out once it's slippery?
At any rate there was still a level of success, 40% is better than nothing.
On a good note, her Bluetooth voicebox worked flawlessly last night.........
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This would be a cool mod for photography buffs primarily, last night I did a (really amateur) shoot and through all the positioning only one thumbnail popped off, and that's because her hair caught it for this pose below. If you look closely it's near her right knee, lol.
I also found some better stamp/coin collection sheets to hold nails, they have little flaps over each pocket.
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Also, with 42 pockets per page they hold 2 complete sets nicely and permanent marker writes on them well.
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I've got a couple more colors to do, as I make them I'm coloring a set for my 100 too. She doesn't have the mod yet but I'll be able to glue all of her magnets onto the nails in about a week since the nails are ready to go.
Sharpie marker writes well on the stamp sheets to keep each finger/toe for each doll in order.
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A couple will fall off in bed overnight, but for the most part it's all good. They stay on for photography and play. Honestly, I don't know that I'd want them on any better or they might be hard to remove, lol.DollFan789 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:59 pm In your research, is there a way to make this more durable?
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I figured I would bring this idea up here too. I was wondering how durable this would be with fabric dolls if one made just the nail pockets or 'nail beds' as she calls them and attached each one to each finger. In my mind this could work with toe nails too since they sell press on toenails from what I saw online.
Could this be combined with the magnetics idea too?
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