My contest Shimpoopoo

[Stickroot]

This thread will cover the half ass butcher job that I did to hurry and enter into the fall contest.
I started with this.without spending a lot of time with the tree I EMMIDIATLLY started hacking at it like so. Within about 5 minutes I decided to grab ahold of the left side and rip it off by handeven got enough root that it is still alive... Saving it for another contest

 

[Random User]

"I decided to grab ahold of the left side and rip it off by hand... "

The surgical approach, I love it!... good stuff, I don't understand why the bonsai books don't teach this method.

I'd dare say that in time, it was going to fail there anyway.

 

[Stickroot]

More hacking, splintering and splitting.
So pink in there.
Some chewing

 

[Random User]

Please don't tell me that you're a dentist.

 

[Stickroot]

Please don't tell me that you're a dentist.

No, but I got the pliers from a dentist

 

[Stickroot]

This is a technique more dentists should use... BURNING, if it isn't how you want it, burn it.
Then brush it!

 

[Random User]

If you wanted movement in that shari, you can hold it with your pliers and heat it with the torch... this turns the sap (sugars) into a solid state and the limb (if it was alive) will hold the shape that you held it in with the pliers...

... but you prolly already know that, so I'll shut up now.

 

[Stickroot]

If you wanted movement in that shari, you can hold it with your pliers and heat it with the torch... this turns the sap (sugars) into a solid state and the limb (if it was alive) will hold the shape that you held it in with the pliers...

... but you prolly already know that, so I'll shut up now.

I wish, nothing but dead wood in this thing. That single live vein has been like that for years it looks like, already singled out its roots.

 

[Stickroot]

Scraping and brushing and then brushing and scraping!
If you are brushing a lot and not getting the whitening affect you want... Lime Sulfer!but not in your mouth
May look yellow at first, but not for long.
Oh the denture brush, gotta be using a denture brush to be cool.

 

[Stickroot]

A lot of the roots I just brushed right away, rotten.but I got down to some wood and live tissue again.oh that denture brush!

 

[Random User]

What-r-the-odds, that you could fuse that other portion right back on there now?

 

[Random User]

... if you had an inkling too that is...

 

[Stickroot]

Might take. Watchu thinking?

 

[Random User]

... I was just curious, if it would even take... you'd know far better than I if it will... but it might cover that lack of nebari on the dead-wood side... although this is not a real problem with a "non-deciduous tree" anyway...

 

[Random User]

... t'was just a thought, I'll leave you to your work now... I think I've intruded enough.

 

[Stickroot]

Sizing up for the pot.

 

[Stickroot]

 

[Stickroot]

 

[Random User]

@Stickroot

Dude!, of all the progressions I've seen done, that looks fantastic... the positioning in the pot makes my bitchin' about the roots a mute point... I'll give it a 9.955 out'ta 10, just because it ain't mine.

 

[just.wing.it]

Sweet