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bonsaiTALK Craftsman
Join Date: Mar-2008
Location: Istanbul
Country: Turkey
Posts: 73
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Dear Aberael,
This message is not meant to discourage you or insult your wood. I just want you to think about few things.
The purpose of making phoenix (Tanuki) is to make a small and unintresting tree look intresting, big and old. Having said that;
Your wood is really a stick and boring. The only part that happen to be intresting is the bottom part and that part had already been decayed. You need to carve out that part which makes the stick more boring.
Your candidate tree will grow as thick as that wood with in a few years. If you start correction wiring now to keep the trunk straight it will look like the wood you have. So you do not need use that wood to achieve it. Phoenix is considered as a technique that down grades the value of the tree. Why you will need that just to earn a few years. There are lots of techniques for creating old trunk feel that that wood will not add age to your tree, either.
When you find a piece of really large, unusually shaped deadwood, it will worth your efforts.
The wood is thin and long.
Unless you want to create an ancient and tall cypress or cedar, such pattern will make no use. If it was a real tree most of us would want to chop it down to 1/3 of its lenght. As i said before, maybe not a cedar but a cypress can reach that size in a few years.
So, you can still try it. But just for practice. Do not expect a high quality look with that material.
Regards,
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