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Originally Posted by Attila
I don't have much patience for overly technical, step-by-step articles page after page after page. Watching how to bend a branch over 2 pages of 20 photographic sequences are rather exhausting than instructive, at least for me. No wonder it took a week to finish reading it. I would just skip half of the pictures and cut to the chase.
There is only so many ways of wiring, bending, and pruning a branch. After seing it once, the same technique is applied over and over again on different trees. Same with rootpruning. Reading about it once every two years is enough for me.
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After 17 years in bonsai I FINALLY feel like I understand how to wire soundly and that only now I can BEGIN truly learning.
This didn't come about by pretty pictures of before-and-after trees. It came about by first observing Kathy Shaner doing something odd with her wire, and secondly reading a
technical article on wiring...
so technical as to be presented as a proof of a theorem. This article confirmed what I thought I was observing.
An article like this wouldn't make it into BT despite it's value, but I made sure it made it into our club's April newsletter!
--Jim
The resume for Richard Wagner, the gentleman that put so much into developing this proof, can be found here:
http://iris.usc.edu/home/iris/rwagner/resume.html. I prefer this kind of advertising to the other!