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Hi Ms. Vic
Good to see Dan working away with his die grinder. Is he still using core box bits?
I first met Dan at the 1980 GSBF convention in Sacramento. He was styling collected pines with a chainsaw. That's what got me started using power tools on bonsai. As soon as I got home from the convention, I bought a small electric chainsaw. Still have it and it works good.
In 1987, Dan and I did a dual demo for Bonsai Society of San Francisco at their annual show at the Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. Dan styled a Ponderosa Pine he had collected, and I put together a rock to plant it in. One of the members won it, and sometime later she gave it to me as it was much too big for her to manage. The height from table is about 30 inches.
The image I'm posting was made last summer sometime to enter in the World Contest.
It's good to see you working with Dan at Elandan. You'll have fun, and learn lots.

Mike

Edit next day: I went into the "archives" and found this picture that was taken about 4 years after the original work by Dan, and the planting in the rock.

Mike