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F I N D T H E 1 4 D I F F E R E N C E S !
ICHIBAN is the new revolutionary bonsai multi-use tool created,
designed and tested by Marco Invernizzi and produced by hand by Masakuni in Japan.
Why will ICHIBAN soon be the most widely diffused Bonsai tool in the world?
1) Its innovative ergonomic design helps the bonsaist to assume a healthier and more comfortable back, shoulder and elbow
position enabling him to work longer and with less fatigue.
2) Its effective weight is slightly lower than that of a standard tool on the market but, in one’s hands, its design makes it seem
50% lighter than any other bonsai tool.
3) 7 tools are united in the ICHIBAN design. This will enable you to work faster and remain concentrated on your bonsais and at
the same time have a much lighter toolbox. ICHIBAN is: shears for shoots, shears for small branches, shears for large branches and
roots, wire cutter, chisel, hammer and pliers.
4) The two ICHIBAN blades are united by a special rivet of new design, 4 times stronger than a conventional one, enabling you to
use its blades to create jin, shari, to bend branches and cut aluminium wire and branches even 4 mm thick (see instructions).
5) The two ICHIBAN blades are also 20% longer than a normal tool, enabling you to have access only with its point where before
you did not manage to arrive, thus helping you to keep your hands far from the most delicate parts of your bonsai. Even with more
intensive use, the blades length will make it practically useless to sharpen them for many years.
6) ICHIBAN is forged by hand one by one with the best, most sought-after materials available by these artisan blacksmiths who
have made Masakuni world leader in the production of bonsai tools for the last three generations of bonsaists. If maintained in
suitable conditions ICHIBAN is guaranteed rustproof. When he purchases ICHIBAN each client will receive free of charge a blade
cleaner specifically created for ICHIBAN which will be very useful to remove resin residues from his blades.
7) The design of the ICHIBAN grip, together with its special rubber coating, will enable bonsaists with large hands, women, nervous
people and anyone who cares about the health of his hands to use a bonsai tool without annoying pains in his fingers and without
creating hard skin. ICHIBAN is a tool that may be used with the right or left hand and its grip enables you to use it in the opposite
direction, with the blades pointing upwards, thus arriving where no other shears have ever arrived before.
8) The bonsai tools of different makes, besides being mostly produced by the same factory, are identical, making it easy to lose or
exchange them unintentionally with those of someone else. ICHIBAN has instead a specially created space on which to engrave,
write or mark its unmistakeable sign. Therefore, from now on, if someone steals your ICHIBAN it will be because he can’t do without
it!
9) When a normal shears fall, it happens more frequently that the point break, making them unusable. The same points of the
ICHIBAN blades have been designed to make them unbreakable and, if ICHIBAN falls, there is an 80% possibility that, due to its
weight, the chisel point touches the ground before the thin point. This point sharpened on one side has been designed to rapidly
enable the bonsaist to use the shears also as knife or chisel to cut the bark or scratch undesired residues.
10) ICHIBAN will not tear the pockets of your trousers or the toolbox. Its innovative design will enable you to put it in your pockets
even more easily and rapidly than a cowboy’s pistol..
11) To insert the wire and hold the tool in your hand at the same time isn’t a problem, with ICHIBAN. You need only raise your forearm
and open your hand and in a second ICHIBAN will turn 180°, leaving thumb, forefinger and middle finger free to apply the
wire. Its position, limited weight and diagonal non-pointed blade will enable you to take, bend and apply the aluminium or copper
wire in full freedom.
12) Its wonderful silk-lined wooden box is hand-made by the same craftsman who created the boxes of the artistic objects of the
private collection of the Japanese emperor. ICHIBAN is the ideal gift for anyone who wants to improve the quality and pleasure of
his work with the bonsai.
13) Purchasing ICHIBAN you can enter the ICHIBAN CLUB, a site created to communicate all the ICHIBAN owners all over the
world and receive useful news, updates and advice from Marco Invernizzi in person.
14) ICHIBAN isn’t a bonsai tool only for experts. In many years of career Marco Invernizzi has given over one thousand seminars
in 5 continents working with bonsaists with the widest range of ability, style, techniques and characteristics. Thinking about all of
them, we offer you the greatest, most useful revolution of the world of bonsai in the last 100 years: ICHIBAN. ALL IN ONE, ONE
FOR ALL
At its world launch at the WWBF Congress 2009 in Puerto Rico, each ICHIBAN will be numbered and signed by Masakuni and
Marco Invernizzi. A rare collection piece.
keep it green,
Harry
