BrianBay9
Masterpiece
Only some of you old-timers here will remember Behr Appleby (Grampz)...great, creative bonsai artist and super nice guy who passed away several years ago. His signature line (usually referring to himself) was "I thought he would never leave".
Grampz once described and photographed a technique for creating taper in some collected species, demonstrated on bald cypress I think. On a flat top trunk cut, he bored out the heartwood in the center, made cuts to create segments of the trunk retaining the live bark, then brought them together using ring clamps and glue to form an inverted cone at the top of the tree. Eash segment retained a live branch, cambium and bark. They would grow back together, rapidly forming a tapered top.
Grampz posted pics of this process here at one time, and sent them independently to some of us. I lost mine in a computer crash. I can't find them in the archives of this site. I was wondering if anyone here,
1) still has those pics they could share?
2) used this technique and could show some long term results?
Cheers
Brian
Grampz once described and photographed a technique for creating taper in some collected species, demonstrated on bald cypress I think. On a flat top trunk cut, he bored out the heartwood in the center, made cuts to create segments of the trunk retaining the live bark, then brought them together using ring clamps and glue to form an inverted cone at the top of the tree. Eash segment retained a live branch, cambium and bark. They would grow back together, rapidly forming a tapered top.
Grampz posted pics of this process here at one time, and sent them independently to some of us. I lost mine in a computer crash. I can't find them in the archives of this site. I was wondering if anyone here,
1) still has those pics they could share?
2) used this technique and could show some long term results?
Cheers
Brian
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