CrayFurbs Minimally Invasive Furby Restoration Tutorial (pt 1)

CrayFurbs minimally invasive Furby restoration tutorial (pt 1)

Hello everyone! So I had a couple people ask me about my cleaning methods so I thought I would make a tutorial post! These are just things I’ve learned and the Method I prefer when cleaning or restoring furbys for my personal collection (that being one’s I like to keep mint or near perfect) or rarer furbys (like kid cuisinea, hi-cs) without causing damage to the zip tie or tags.

So in this tutorial I’ll walk you through:

Disabling the zip tie WITHOUT cutting it

Removing and preserving paper tags

General cleaning + what I found works best

Step 1: specimen procurement.

Today I present you with a very stinky lad who has the honor (or misfortune) of being my demonstrate-ie

He’s overall in good cosmetic condition, tags intact but his fur is extremely yellowed and he is generally icky.

Step 2. Removing the ziptie, without cutting it

So to start, locate the zip tie and shift the pelt until the main block part is exposed like so

Then take a sharp tool and push it BETWEEN the locking mechanism and the end of the zip tie, it takes some practice but with a little push….

It pops free! You just preserved the zip tie without cutting it :) and you can re-use it on the furb!

You can then skin as usual. Really your preference on this.

Step 3: removing the “hang tag”

So now you should have a pelt with the tag on, now if you want to still wash the furb + save the tags here’s how I do it!

find the end of the hang tag, it should look like a little “T” you can use a needle or similar tool to part the fur and find the the hole where it went through, gently angle the T piece and feed it through

Flip the furb inside out, and repeat previous step.

You should then have a plastic tag that hasn’t been cut, and with no damage to the paper tag.

Now. Take that beautifully skinned pelt and put it in some water to soak…. While part 2 is being written.

He strikes me as the type of guy to own a saltwater aquarium.

I made this Furby quite a while ago, but it took so long to finally get nice lighting to take photos, but here he is!! :]

I think I like the name ⚘⚘ Pond Scum ⚘⚘ It goes with his colour scheme and I think he seems like a cryptic creature that could easily crawl out of a pond or swamp to go about his nightly routine. He kinda reminds me of the Swamp Ape or even a Kelpie for some reason. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also! I had a lot of asks about my furby patterns for the 2023 furb among others, so I decided to do a couple digital patterns on Ko-fi

This is my first time selling patterns, but I’m kind of a perfectionist and try to get them nearly identical to factory ones so ye :p

These patterns are all the ones I personally use for my customs. I’ve got some pretty unusual ones like 2005s and shelbies! I should have some more up soon, including 05 baby’s and some cloths! (Like tropical furby shirt and Wizard cloak)

Furbsune Miku

Look at my favourite specimen 

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