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Bonsai Master Masahiko Kimura
Posted: December 27th, 2015, 7:00 am
by melbrackstone
This is Part 2, and it's in Japanese, however I was gobsmacked just by watching. If you've ever wondered how to shorten a long straight trunk, here's your answer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7J2V7LVOFU
*gulp*
Re: Bonsai Master Masahiko Kimura
Posted: December 27th, 2015, 7:10 am
by Brian
thats a good find, thank you.
Re: Bonsai Master Masahiko Kimura
Posted: December 27th, 2015, 8:36 am
by melbrackstone
Cheers Brian!
Re: Bonsai Master Masahiko Kimura
Posted: December 27th, 2015, 10:01 am
by Daluke
Wow, talk about pushing the limit!
Re: Bonsai Master Masahiko Kimura
Posted: December 27th, 2015, 10:33 am
by melbrackstone
I'd love to have seen how it fared a year later...
Re: Bonsai Master Masahiko Kimura
Posted: December 27th, 2015, 7:05 pm
by Reece
WOWEE.
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Re: Bonsai Master Masahiko Kimura
Posted: December 27th, 2015, 8:14 pm
by Firecat
Heresy, magic and evil sorcery
Re: Bonsai Master Masahiko Kimura
Posted: December 28th, 2015, 8:37 am
by Reece
melbrackstone wrote:I'd love to have seen how it fared a year later...
I may be wrong but right at the end of the vid, just before they show his most famous tree. They show the tree they were working on and it looks like the foliage had been worked on. Surely they would have let it recover for a while....
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Re: Bonsai Master Masahiko Kimura
Posted: December 28th, 2015, 9:42 am
by melbrackstone
Reece wrote:melbrackstone wrote:I'd love to have seen how it fared a year later...
I may be wrong but right at the end of the vid, just before they show his most famous tree. They show the tree they were working on and it looks like the foliage had been worked on. Surely they would have let it recover for a while....
Oh yes! I looked again, and you're right!
I'm even more gobsmacked!
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Re: Bonsai Master Masahiko Kimura
Posted: December 28th, 2015, 12:10 pm
by Brian
this is a really old video as I remember seeing him in a Japanese bonsai magazine working on this tree in the early 80's.
Re: Bonsai Master Masahiko Kimura
Posted: December 28th, 2015, 3:54 pm
by melbrackstone
Brian wrote:this is a really old video as I remember seeing him in a Japanese bonsai magazine working on this tree in the early 80's.
Have processes and techniques changed so much since the 80's? I guess the electrical gadgets will have....and the clothes.
Re: Bonsai Master Masahiko Kimura
Posted: January 5th, 2016, 8:08 am
by split007
Oh lord! After watching that video without blinking, I need a whiskey.....bottle! I don't know if I feel inspried to work on my bonsai collection or to throw in the towel. That's some crazy cutting and chipping, chiseling, sawing and wrapping/bending. That was some very old very nice stock to begin with, oh the balls to do that....or should I say experience training and know how. ....and the Winner is!!!
Thanks for posting that link up.
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Re: Bonsai Master Masahiko Kimura
Posted: January 5th, 2016, 8:25 am
by split007
I though I was immortal after succefully conducting an air layer procedure....hahahahahahahahahaha
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Re: Bonsai Master Masahiko Kimura
Posted: January 6th, 2016, 7:50 am
by Daluke
It was dangerous to my trees watching this. But if you kill 99 and get 1 as good as in the video it's probably not that bad.
How many canvasses with average paintings do you think an artist goes through before coming up with a masterpiece
??
Re: Bonsai Master Masahiko Kimura
Posted: January 6th, 2016, 8:37 am
by Jarad
Good point Daluke.
Makes me wonder what the average tree mortality rate is across the globe
