This is a trunk that i collected after the 98 Beechworth fires . I estimate the tree would have been about 4 metres in height prior to the bush fire.
Left unchecked fora couple of seasons i styled it as a twin trunk 
with the original stump retained for carving 
.I will allow it to settle then carve and pot it up into a Bonsai pot .
Archive for April, 2010
This is a method i have began to use to bend and shape larger trunks that have failed to hold with normal wiring procedures .
With 25 years experience with wearing back and body braces for spinal correction
i came to the conclusion if it works on the human spine it should brace and hold a tree trunk long enough for the tree to maintain 
the movement required for good Bonsai. Using hard drawn cooper tubing i loosely spiral wrap the trunk and the tube as one . Then i simply bend the copper tube to the desired shape and with the strength of the hardened copper the shape is maintained without constant adjustment.This means less stress on the trunks and the fibres/cells within .After 2 weeks i have noticed a relaxing of the trunks so an adjustment of the wire is simply done by unraveling the bottom half , tensioning then rewinding .Then repeat for the top half . 
. This Literati pine is spiral wrapped in the conventional method taking 4 times longer to apply and no where near as effective as the implimentation of the copper tube . It requires constant adjusting so there is always stress on the cells inside.I will remove this wire and replace with the copper brace method .
This was a result of a plan to construct some trays and landscape mediums .After toying with several possible methods and materials with no real direction i finally got my act together and began to pump a few items out for testing .
Made from
modern building materials
and a method that i will keep under my hat util such time that i’m sure they are stable enough to disclose the full process involved.
With all the hard work done time to plant a few trainers and kick back while the materials are tested under Bonsai conditions