Some thing to dremel

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Some thing to dremel

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Had my eye on this tree for a few weeks now :shifty: :shifty: early today had phone call sayoing my seasonal work is starting Monday where i work 7 days 10hr days :palm: but money is good :hooray: so decided i needed to collect this one today :whistle: :whistle:
I have a few reasons to collect this material as its not the best but in time most trees can be made into a bonsai :tu: .

Main reason is i wanted a tree that has a lot of dead wood looking around this was the best i could find :D . Ill be getting a dremel soon an wanted some thing to practice on . Ive done a little with my dads dremel but only on a piece of wood but on bonsai will be much different cant just flip the tree over etc :lol: :lol: :lol: .
Another reason is i have always like dead wood in bonsai i can remember looking in books when i was a kid an thinking i have to work on getting something like that :D . I see olive as a great resource for this kind of work as old junipers an pines are few an far between in Oz .
I think this tree will give me some valuable experience in carving dead wood :fc: :fc: . If the carving looks good ill train a new trunk following the the red line in the picture then go from there ;)
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You must surely be doing your bit for weed control for South Australia

You have got some cracking plants though

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Nice movement in the trunk.. And plenty of opportunity to carve!
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matlea wrote:Nice movement in the trunk.. And plenty of opportunity to carve!
Yeah cant Waite to get me a dremel all that wood is dead :D except the small trunk on the left i just cut the whole thing to fit a 300mm garden pot :twisted: :twisted: will give carving a nebari a go as well heaps of fun to come on this olive :tu:
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Post by anttal63 »

Ya killin me Olive !!! I think a trip to Adelaide is in order !!! :fc:
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