My new olive

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Matthew
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Re: My new olive

Post by Matthew »

Hi sonic
I really got to get to these meetings sometime, takes about 1h20min to get to albury for me but i should make the effort. When is the next one?
ps olives are great, i need to add more to my collection
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Re: My new olive

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Hi Matthew the next meeting on the last Tuesday of the month.The club is planing another olive dig ,hope to see you there. Thanks sonic976
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Re: My new olive

Post by ubphu »

teamak wrote:you don't add live veins to trunks do you? I thought you found which part was still living and painted the surrounding deadwood.

nice olive sonic, helluva trunk.
Sorry i didn't mean live veins. More like lines in the deadwood.

This video by Graham Potter is a good example. He uses a dremel to carve nice lines in the dead wood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw1nyWee ... ure=g-vrec
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