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Bonsai Doer
Join Date: Aug-2001
Location: Fresno, CA
Country: USA
Posts: 5,369
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Shohin Seminar Goodies Thread
This thread will be for those that went to the Shohin Seminar and wish to post discriptions and pictures of the goodies they bought. I bought a few things. I made the mistake of adding it up when I got home and found that I had spent $910.00 at the seminar, not counting gas, the gas back to Los Banos for forgotten credit card in the ATM, gas back and fourth home each night , and the extra gas to avoid the largest traffic jam due to an overturned tanker in Cal. history.
I did focus quite a bit this time on pottery. I found the choice on pots to be extra special this year. The plant material was very good and I was able to buy some accent plant material as well as some tools.
In the tool dept I was able to buy a die grinder before I went to Shohin. I have posted it here since I spent my shohin money on the tool. What I did buy was some grinding bits for it as well as some flex-cut knives for jin carving.
A basalt Suiseki in a twin mountain peak form. Not perfect, but with the right dai it might just be worthy.
I found this great deal on a Yizing pot from China. The price was right and the color is good. The size is perfect for a juniper that I collected on this last trip. The formal small upright. I think this will be perfect.
I found two redwood slabs that will make great shohin display boardsfter they have been planed down to the correct thickness. I am going to try to saw them in half and get two slabs from each piece. Bob Hilvers bought the other two that were there. I will be planning his down also.
The small juniper was my workshop tree. It will begin its lonely existance in a grow box for the next 4 years, to help remove what I did to it.
This small elm was not really anything to shout home about. My reason for buying it will become clear soon though.
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