As far I know the neck bracket is invented by DaveC, actually the bracket has not much to do with the stand (could be used with stand, if stand is high enough).Get one of these made as well, they help to make the centre of gravity correct.
Not sure but I think credit for this goes to Mahtek, but then I could be wrong.
To point out some things:
1) Neck bracket is not needed for storing your doll, so its not needed for the stand.
2) Neck bracket is invented for photography purposes to correct for the offset in gravitity due to the fact that the point of gravitity of the neckbolt is not in the center of the doll, the doll will look more naturally when hung from the bracket.
3) When making a bracket by yourself, then don't make the leaverage too long, it applies force to the neck/spine of your doll, so if its long enough to correct for center of gravity then its ok. (Only Thomas knows how much force one could put on the neck / spine with this kinda devices). Warning: When you produce this kinda brackets yourself, this needs to be beefy rigid construction, like the one DaveC uses, else this will bend, comes a lot of force on...! (should be great if we could buy them somewhere I think).
4) One may need photoshop or simular software to remove the bracket in his doll pictures (it is not a beautifull looking device).
5) Another way for correcting the center of gravitation is, ... drilling a hole in the center of her head and hang her from that. I don't know exactly how he did, but I know George66 did.
...6... So both DaveC and George66 are both from UK,... those people both enineered their own solution to solve the doll is not hanging right due to that she is not hung from centre of gravitation... problem..., seem to me there are still lot technical people around there in the country from which the industrialisation once started... ...
Mytime & Helen