AusBonsai

What does everyone think of my latest little project?

Any suggestions what might look good in it?

Do like!

Very cool... what stone did you use?

I made one from sandstone many years ago and grew a tiny maple in it. About half the size hole you have made, it sat in the creek section of my parents pond. Wonder what ever happened to it probably still sitting in the now dry creek

Matt

Hey guys

Matt not 100% on the stone I think its a type of granite.

I was thinking of putting a group of three Japanese maples in it.

Its amazing what you can acheive in half an hour with an angle grinder a hammer and chissel.

Great minds think alike I would suggest putting a larger drain hole in


Tony

Tinmonkey wrote:Hey guys

Matt not 100% on the stone I think its a type of granite.

I was thinking of putting a group of three Japanese maples in it.

Its amazing what you can acheive in half an hour with an angle grinder a hammer and chissel.

What is this angle grinder thing you speak of?

I used a hammer & chisel, now I think about it thats why the hollow was only half the size of yours

Matt

Nice one matt.

I was hammering away for a while, sat back wiped the sweat from my brow.
Looked across and saw the angle grinder lying there and remembered i had a masonry blade

Turned an hours long job into a simple yet dusty little task.

@ Tony I couldnt find a larger bit so when i buy a new one i plan on drilling a larger hole.

If you go to an engineering supply company ask for an ARTU drill. They are designed for drilling very hard materials and are able to drill into rock without the hammer function. They are "sharper" than an ordinary masony drill. Did you use a diamond wheel on your angle grinder ?

Tony

Take me back 15 years and you would have a young boy sitting hidden from mum behind the bushes in the front yard (cause at that age mum yells at you, when she finds you with sharp implements), carving out rocks like this with dad's wood chisels(I now have inherited all dad's tools and am repairing the damage I did to them as a child. Isn't that divine justice. ), to put "Mini" (no Internet back then, I didn't have a clue what "bonsai" was, just wanted "weird"and "small" plants) to plant trees in them.

The feeling of being human, carving out a rock that has been around for thousands of years before you, to place an organic material into, that will most probably in it's then life time, consume the thousand year old rock, is an experience only recognized by those that have done it themselves.

Every chip/fragment/section removed it a compartment which roots can fill. Breath taking stuff.

Keep us posted mate.

Bougy Fan wrote:If you go to an engineering supply company ask for an ARTU drill. They are designed for drilling very hard materials and are able to drill into rock without the hammer function. They are "sharper" than an ordinary masony drill. Did you use a diamond wheel on your angle grinder ?

Tony

Need water cooling? Any idea what it is tipped with, diamond/tungsten etc?
Just interest, as you would know, work/bunnings only have bits which require cooling/hammer. I need something for masonry that doesn't need cooling on long period drills.

They are tungsten carbide I believe and do better with a bit of cooling. You can even drill spring steel with them. I have put one as a pilot drill in my hole saw which I have a diamond hole saw for tiling.

They are not indestructible - I had a job fitting towel rails and tolilet roll holders into a bathroom that had vitreous tiles on the wall. I went through a couple of drills as I couldn't use water cooling.

As I said they are sharper than the standard Sutton masonry drills that require impact to work. They are also available in a huge range of metric and imperial sizes up to about 13mm I think. You can use them with a hammer function if needed - if I have to fit plugs into concrete I use them in my 15.8 volt cordless drill that has a hammer funtion instead of having to drag out the SDS rotary hammer drill


Tony

"having to drag out the SDS rotary hammer drill" nuf said, i'll gve 'em a shot.

Mitchell wrote:Take me back 15 years and you would have a young boy sitting hidden from mum behind the bushes in the front yard (cause at that age mum yells at you, when she finds you with sharp implements), carving out rocks like this with dad's wood chisels(I now have inherited all dad's tools and am repairing the damage I did to them as a child. Isn't that divine justice. ), to put "Mini" (no Internet back then, I didn't have a clue what "bonsai" was, just wanted "weird"and "small" plants) to plant trees in them.

The feeling of being human, carving out a rock that has been around for thousands of years before you, to place an organic material into, that will most probably in it's then life time, consume the thousand year old rock, is an experience only recognized by those that have done it themselves.

Every chip/fragment/section removed it a compartment which roots can fill. Breath taking stuff.

Keep us posted mate.

Divine justice indeed.... and sounds very like my own first rock pots... Dad was atleast cool about me doing weird stuff like this so gave me his cold chisels to use... Still had to hide up the side of the house so mum didnt go nuts! She did when i finally came in for dinner covered in rock dust

A few years later I carved this water bowl.. same way... by hand... Matt

And now with its new resident juniper