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bonsaiTALK Master Craftsman
Join Date: May-2005
Country: The Netherlands
Posts: 944
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Death wood work on old "Mugo" Pine. 2
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The wood is brushed with a hard metal brush.
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With a small jewelry burner the death wood is carefully burned. The live part off the tree was protected with a piece off aluminium, so that it would not get to hot and suffer mayor damage to the sap flow. Because the wood was still not dry, the resin started to burst into flames. So i had to burn a Little, stop and blow out the flame. Because the soft parts off the wood burn more easily than the hard parts, the texture off the wood comes out very beautiful and old looking. Doing this burning also hardens the remaining death wood protecting it from rotting,
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After the burning the now black dead wood was cleaned with a copper brush in the direction off the wood grain. This not only cleaned the wood, but also created more detail to the surface. After that the wood is sprayed with water, it is treated with jin seal.
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Close ups of the newly created dead wood, that now is nicely blending in to the old dead wood.
I hope you enjoyed it,
Hans van Meer.
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