electraus
Mame
Hi everyone,
I’ve been directing a decent amount of the time I spend on practicing proper bonsai styling techniques on wiring since last spring. In the fall, I got over my fear of using copper wire and was even able to successfully put a fairly big bend on a ~1/2” nursery juniper trunk. A couple of weeks ago, I bent an almost 1” juniper trunk into a full cascade and was fairly successful but I ran into a problem I haven’t encountered in a while— the wire separating from the trunk/branch when changing horizontal horizontal directionality.
This used to be a major problem for me at joints where I had to change the horizontal directionality of the coil, in this case it was when the trunk split into the primary branch that would become the cascade and the one that would become the apex. It stopped happening completely once I became very comfortable with aluminum wire but I was never able to determine what exactly I was doing wrong.
I also still have a very hard time making full 360* twists on juniper branches that are thicker than say 1/4” to 5/8” in diameter. What exactly is it that you’re doing incorrectly if the wire separates from the branch you’re trying to bend or twist ?
I’ve been directing a decent amount of the time I spend on practicing proper bonsai styling techniques on wiring since last spring. In the fall, I got over my fear of using copper wire and was even able to successfully put a fairly big bend on a ~1/2” nursery juniper trunk. A couple of weeks ago, I bent an almost 1” juniper trunk into a full cascade and was fairly successful but I ran into a problem I haven’t encountered in a while— the wire separating from the trunk/branch when changing horizontal horizontal directionality.
This used to be a major problem for me at joints where I had to change the horizontal directionality of the coil, in this case it was when the trunk split into the primary branch that would become the cascade and the one that would become the apex. It stopped happening completely once I became very comfortable with aluminum wire but I was never able to determine what exactly I was doing wrong.
I also still have a very hard time making full 360* twists on juniper branches that are thicker than say 1/4” to 5/8” in diameter. What exactly is it that you’re doing incorrectly if the wire separates from the branch you’re trying to bend or twist ?