4 hours later including the 2 hour return drive to bonsai emporium and I was bored again, with an equally boring tree to look at, so out came the pencils and the below virtual was born... I think although it may still be considered 'stock standard' it has a lot more drama and is far more interesting than my original attempt at styling.
This tree has started to wake up for the winter so time to decide whether to pot her up as is.. or work towards the virtual over the next year or 2.
This post is more to preserve the images and to serve as future reference for when I inevitably forget when I did what...
I may yet go a completely different direction and try out some new techniques on this one though.... I'm thinking a shimpaku conversion, and attempting the drill out bending/twisting method I read on the forum awhile ago but will see how it goes..
Cheers for lookin.
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I reckon the path you've chosen is excellent. For whatever reason, I get bored by these juniper specimens - so many are same, same; they are everywhere - everyone's first port of call. Meh! I have one that was given to me as a present and you've given me inspiration that I may be able to make something worth looking at. Here, in your example, you've made something eye catching and I reckon (for the very little that my view is worth) that this is heading in the right direction. I guess whether the shari adds something or not will be whether it can be scraped out in in the context of a relatively thin trunk... in some way, just the little portion at the bottom of this tree adds something already. 
Cheers, Mark
