Gosh…. For me to start with that would be a really decent pair of scissors, a good diagonal cutter and diagonal tweezers…. I don’t like straight ones, but I’m an outlier.
But I’m not one to be afraid of properly grinding down the tips of one of my wire cutters to make these work best for bonsai! You don’t need these until you wire anyways..
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Am going to get a pre-bonsai plant so I can learn to wire. What tool of my husbands should I 'borrow' for this? Or should I actually buy something? I don't know how big of an investment a wire cutting tool is. If it's not a lot I might as well get it. I'm going to buy good scissors.Gosh…. For me to start with that would be a really decent pair of scissors, a good diagonal cutter and diagonal tweezers…. I don’t like straight ones, but I’m an outlier.
But I’m not one to be afraid of properly grinding down the tips of one of my wire cutters to make these work best for bonsai! You don’t need these until you wire anyways.
Best
DSD sends
Thank you DSD...Been seriously crazy pot shopping all spring until lately. Had a real lot of uppotting to do this year and more next. Mostly smaller rounds and ovals… some others up to 12”. Azaleas, pines, kusumonos etc. Here’s what I learned.
Vicki Chamberlain is seriously awesome. I bought some pots from her and commissioned one recently for a much needed early summer repot of a Secchu no Matsu Satsuki Bonsai. I set her some photos of a couple pots we liked with specs. Vicki designed and made a couple to choose from and got it to me just in time for the repot. Satsuki is doing really fine now in its somewhat larger new digs.
btw: I asked, and Vicki even donated a pot for our Five year Azalea contest!
I’ve purchased a couple really nice Pots from Bonsai Vision at St George . UT that we’re really nice also. Our two new pines are loving these.
NEBonsai had a couple nice pots
Oh yes, there were a couple really nice offbeat (for me) pots from @sorce too. My wife stole them from me in the dark of the night!
I to get smaller pots for developing Satsuki Bonsai in = 99 cent Bonsai I got various pots through this site, cheaper the better… some not! Some of these were from Pot Punchin Potters (Jessica Fox), Tom Johnson and Izzy Giuseppe Lombardo from Italy - his was awesome…. to name a couple I liked.
Finally graduated to Bonsai Pot auctions where some of the awesome potters hide… and others. If you hit the site at slow weeks you can get some fantastic buys. Sam Miller is one of my favorites, also an up and comer who is making small rounds right now is Matt Borst. His first pot didn’t have enough drainage for me so right away he beefed up the drainage in all his designs afterwards. Finally David George is another good buy. Been outbid on the Sara Rainer pots posted or they just didn’t fit my specs.
That said, At this point I’m likely to go to more of a custom ask as our satsuki get bigger. I haven’t found a potter yet that normally caters to the needs of day to day satsuki owners. (Maybe it’s a closed circle and I haven’t been initiated yet.) Not talking display pots here, everyday pots. Always too shallow for these trees needs. Or too deep for the width. Maybe it’s because as one of my volunteer friends at the Museum says “Satsuki aren’t bonsai”. Another just calls them Divas in a pot…
On second thought….Maybe I should just go to the junkyard and get some old hubcaps and drill the darn things! See recent ABS article.
Anyways that’s my experience with pot purchasing this year.
cheers
DSD sends
Thank you...I'll look for the article on hubcaps, sounds interesting if nothing else!Been seriously crazy pot shopping all spring until lately. Had a real lot of uppotting to do this year and more next. Mostly smaller rounds and ovals… some others up to 12”. Azaleas, pines, kusumonos etc. Here’s what I learned.
Vicki Chamberlain is seriously awesome. I bought some pots from her and commissioned one recently for a much needed early summer repot of a Secchu no Matsu Satsuki Bonsai. I set her some photos of a couple pots we liked with specs. Vicki designed and made a couple to choose from and got it to me just in time for the repot. Satsuki is doing really fine now in its somewhat larger new digs.
btw: I asked, and Vicki even donated a pot for our Five year Azalea contest!
I’ve purchased a couple really nice Pots from Bonsai Vision at St George . UT that we’re really nice also. Our two new pines are loving these.
NEBonsai had a couple nice pots
Oh yes, there were a couple really nice offbeat (for me) pots from @sorce too
I to get smaller pots for developing Satsuki Bonsai in = 99 cent Bonsai I got various pots through this site, cheaper the better… some not! Some of these were from Pot Punchin Potters (Jessica Fox), Tom Johnson and Izzy Giuseppe Lombardo from Italy - his was awesome…. to name a couple I liked.
Finally graduated to Bonsai Pot auctions where some of the awesome potters hide… and others. If you hit the site at slow weeks you can get some fantastic buys. Sam Miller is one of my favorites, also an up and comer who is making small rounds right now is Matt Borst. His first pot didn’t have enough drainage for me so right away he beefed up the drainage in all his designs afterwards. Finally David George is another good buy. Been outbid on the Sara Rainer pots posted or they just didn’t fit my specs.
That said, At this point I’m likely to go to more of a custom ask as our satsuki get bigger. I haven’t found a potter yet that normally caters to the needs of day to day satsuki owners. (Maybe it’s a closed circle and I haven’t been initiated yet.) Not talking display pots here, everyday pots. Always too shallow for these trees needs. Or too deep for the width. Maybe it’s because as one of my volunteer friends at the Museum says “Satsuki aren’t bonsai”. Another just calls them Divas in a pot…
On second thought….Maybe I should just go to the junkyard and get some old hubcaps and drill the darn things! See recent ABS article.
Anyways that’s my experience with pot purchasing this year.
cheers
DSD sends
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