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Old 20-Mar-2007   #14
wabashene
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Originally Posted by weeijk
Hi TimR

Took some time, but did manage to twist the trunk a little, this is how it looks now. Hope this'll be better.

Wessel


Hi Wessel.

As we say in England that is starting to look the business or the gnats nadgers imo.

I had a similar arrangement of guy wires ropes and pulleys on one of mine but it worked. :-)

Like McSpeed says a bit of branch cut back and re-growing will be needed to keep everything in proportion- i.e. bigger at the bottom than the top

(see the diagram of my method which will probably take more than 4 years but you get the idea I hope)

I like that hanging branch top right.

You need to work some movement to get them hanging and like bent arms with fingers splayed out.

Take a look at some of Karl Thier and Wolfgang's larches here and on IBC for inspiration. Nick Lenz USA also has good ones as does Walter Pall of course.

Excellent piece of work.

Rgds

TimR
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