A full aluminum skeleton would shave 20 pounds off a tall doll.
With everyone crying about weight, why is it no doll mfr has introduced this option?
I have my own theories as to why it hasn't been offered. What are yours?
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I don't think the whole skeleton weighs that much. I had one here that if it weighed as much as 5lbs total, I'd eat my hat.
The gears used in the joints are custom for the doll industry. So are the "donuts" in the joints without gears.stratzilla setz wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 2:54 pm F0AA320A-06F1-46CE-8384-E74679F50BE1.jpeg
Trying to do a breakdown of what these skeletons are made of.
Does anyone know the real life names of all these parts or where to even buy them?
Also I was thinking about camera equipment, and how things like friction arms and tripod ball heads would work decently for some joints, but some of the affordable versions don’t support a lot of weight.
This, 100%Kaori Kusanagi wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 9:48 pmI don't think the whole skeleton weighs that much. I had one here that if it weighed as much as 5lbs total, I'd eat my hat.![]()
Also, to make an aluminum skeleton able to handle the same loads the super-thin-wall stainless steel one does, it would have to use much much thicker walls, so it wouldn't actually weigh much (if any) less. It would also be more vulnerable to joint breakage, which is already a problem with the steel ones.
I don't know how the various doll materials would react with the aluminum, either.
There are a bunch of threads about weight reduction; you can see from various checks people have done that it's the flexible materials the doll body is made from that have almost all of the weight. Some poeple have done foam cores for their dolls to lighten them; it's the most effective option I've seen posted.