SU2
Omono
If I have a failed-collection I tend to save the trunk, have been making some into "bonsai stands" where the post is a dead&weathered trunk(or trunk-with-knees ;D ) and, so it doesn't tip-over, I use a pair of 1"x1"'s to make an "x" that's screwed-into the bottom of the stand/trunk.
Problem is that this is bulky....would love tips/ideas, google was surprisingly useless here... I've got any tool necessary, part of me is thinking that to make the "base" the stump/post will stand upon, I should simply use a multitool/oscillating tool to carve "tongue&groove" cuts in the centers of a pair of 1"x1" beams to then mate at 90deg angle to each other, and the stand/trunk sits upon that? (any of these designs are 'used' by "burying" the 1x1" base-standing, aiming to get base-of-trunk (or 'stand')) at ground-level)
Here's the 1st (and only, of this type at least) I'd tried making, was at least 1.5yrs ago so have FAR more gear&skill for such projects now in fact will be re-doing this 1st one as I love its trunk so it's going back to the 'stock' pile ;D
[note: no, bottom doesn't have its 1x1 "X" secured to the bottom although if it did you wouldn't be able to see it, whole idea is that part would be below-ground so the stand appears to be just standing because of how wide its nebari/buttressing is! I can make neat tops all day but I don't know what the best/strongest way to make "an X" for the bottom is and making weak spots by carving tongue>oove overlaps in the centers of the base planks seems silly ]
Any other tips on these types of things would be appreciated, for instance I've found I'd only put time into 'old' wood (ie weathered/cured' but, at the same time, I LOVE the idea of setting a fire in my fire-pit and treating the wood that way, in FL burnishing is by far the best, still have a good deal of old bark to strip so figure I'll do fire treatments first over a fire-pit and then am expecting that'll make removal of the remaining bark much easier (others are fresh, heck i"ve got an almost-1'-wide ficus aerial-root-"trunk" section, gonna be an awesome stand
Problem is that this is bulky....would love tips/ideas, google was surprisingly useless here... I've got any tool necessary, part of me is thinking that to make the "base" the stump/post will stand upon, I should simply use a multitool/oscillating tool to carve "tongue&groove" cuts in the centers of a pair of 1"x1" beams to then mate at 90deg angle to each other, and the stand/trunk sits upon that? (any of these designs are 'used' by "burying" the 1x1" base-standing, aiming to get base-of-trunk (or 'stand')) at ground-level)
Here's the 1st (and only, of this type at least) I'd tried making, was at least 1.5yrs ago so have FAR more gear&skill for such projects now in fact will be re-doing this 1st one as I love its trunk so it's going back to the 'stock' pile ;D
[note: no, bottom doesn't have its 1x1 "X" secured to the bottom although if it did you wouldn't be able to see it, whole idea is that part would be below-ground so the stand appears to be just standing because of how wide its nebari/buttressing is! I can make neat tops all day but I don't know what the best/strongest way to make "an X" for the bottom is and making weak spots by carving tongue>oove overlaps in the centers of the base planks seems silly ]
Any other tips on these types of things would be appreciated, for instance I've found I'd only put time into 'old' wood (ie weathered/cured' but, at the same time, I LOVE the idea of setting a fire in my fire-pit and treating the wood that way, in FL burnishing is by far the best, still have a good deal of old bark to strip so figure I'll do fire treatments first over a fire-pit and then am expecting that'll make removal of the remaining bark much easier (others are fresh, heck i"ve got an almost-1'-wide ficus aerial-root-"trunk" section, gonna be an awesome stand