AusBonsai

CARVING
From Peter Adams talks at the Ideas Summit in July 2009

When doing fine carving follow the grain of the wood, don’t go from side to side.. You must echo the existing lines. When you are refining your carving or carving on a small branch, open the wood up and come up with a natural result. Open the grain to make the branch less round but don’t carve all over the limb – that will make the work too uniform.

Peter was talking about trees with a lot of deadwood and masses of foliage and saying that in real life this would not happen. If so much severity of conditions caused extensive dieback and thus the jins and shari, the tree would not have the means to develop a rich, lush head of foliage. This is a popular style with junipers but it would not happen in real conditions. Harsh conditions and the foliage would be sparse.

Penetrating epoxy can stabilise deadwood.

There is a good cutter available in the US called TRI-CUT. It comes in several sizes and is priced better than the one available from the UK. dcochoy@neo.rr.com

Dales Website is here http://pages.prodigy.net/dalecochoy

And you can see his cutters here
http://pages.prodigy.net/dalecochoy/tools/Tri-Cut0.jpg

Although I like his Samurai cutters, more expensive that the tri cut ones.
Large one here http://pages.prodigy.net/dalecochoy/too ... itools.jpg
Small ones here http://pages.prodigy.net/dalecochoy/too ... Jr.-Lg.jpg

Ken

Dale is also a member of our forum. You could contact him via PM - Dale Cochoy

Or perhaps you might like to add some prices and shipping details here Dale?

Regards,
Steven

Thanks Steven,
They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
Here are the tools you mentioned that Peter was talking about.
I do ship tools to Oz and charge a bit more for shipping there ( 10% instead of 5% here) as it seems I always get some cost I'm not planning on ( Same with shipping to Canada, Europe).
Best method to pay for oz is Visa/MC.
BTW, the email is correct
DCochoy@neo.rr.com
but,
the old Prodigy website is about 6 years outdated on available tools and prices. The site never went away when I left Prodogy years ago.
Dale

Oh damn... here goes my budget!!!

Also....
American made tungsten carbide burrs.
D.