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9-Jun-2008	#1
jeff_quast bonsaiTALK Neophyte Join Date: May-2007 Location: Ca Country: USA Posts: 9	Toriki tool Does anyone know where a Toriki tool can be purchased? The Secret Techniques of Bonsai book describes the use of one but I have been able to find a source that sells these. Jeff

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9-Jun-2008	#2
JohnQuinn bonsaiTALK Master Craftsman Join Date: Jan-2005 Location: South Carolina Country: US USDA Zone: 8 AHS Heat Zone: 8-9 Posts: 921	What's it supposed to do? It's not among the hundreds of tools at this site... __________________ A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright (1876 - 1944) Interplast Sivananda Center

10-Jun-2008	#3
007 Secret Agent Join Date: Nov-2004 Location: Detroit, Michigan Country: U.S. USDA Zone: 5/6 AHS Heat Zone: 4/5 Posts: 838	It's a Masakuni tool intended to improve air-layer nebari by creating a rough edge to the cambium as opposed to a clean cut edge that is achieved via traditional techniques. If you find one, let us know . . . I searched and came up with nothing. I would think however that you could use a rasp or metal file to accomplish the same thing. __________________ Here's to a long life and a merry one, a quick death and an easy one, a pretty girl and an honest one, a cold beer and another one!

10-Jun-2008	#4
kcpoole bonsaiTALK Master Craftsman Join Date: May-2006 Location: Sydney Country: Australia Posts: 888	I was reading the same book last night and was thinking the same thing as I have never seen on anywhere or anything like it Hacksaw Blades side by side might work. Make a stack of about 6 or so 12t blades and tape them to gether is the closest I can think of. Ken __________________ When engineers work out how to make something Idiot proof, humanity invents a better Idiot

12-Jun-2008	#5
lagunamadre bonsaiTALK Master Join Date: Jul-2007 Location: South Padre Island, Texas Country: USA AHS Heat Zone: very Posts: 420	I have the book mentioned also. I made my own tool from an old file. The file is about 1" wide and maybe 3/16" thick, and I used a cut-off wheel on my 4 1/2 " grinder to cut several notches on the top edge. Works good. Larry

12-Jun-2008	#6
Sailor_Jerry bonsaiTALK Expert Join Date: Dec-2007 Location: Ft Meade, MD USDA Zone: 7a/b AHS Heat Zone: 7 Posts: 194	Sounds like a riffler: http://www.amazon.com/Woodstock-Int...p/dp/B0000DD334

12-Jun-2008

007

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Originally Posted by Sailor_Jerry

Sounds like a riffler:

http://www.amazon.com/Woodstock-Int...p/dp/B0000DD334

Pretty damn close . . . the toriki has slightly fewer, larger teeth.

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13-Jun-2008	#8
JohnQuinn bonsaiTALK Master Craftsman Join Date: Jan-2005 Location: South Carolina Country: US USDA Zone: 8 AHS Heat Zone: 8-9 Posts: 921	I see, it looks like the double cut saw blades found on Swiss Army type knives... Example __________________ A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright (1876 - 1944) Interplast Sivananda Center

14-Jun-2008	#9
Joanie Enthusiast *MODERATOR GROUP* Join Date: Feb-2005 Location: Carlsbad, California..coastal desert Country: United States USDA Zone: 11 AHS Heat Zone: 2 Posts: 5,462	Okay, stupid question time. Don't we try very hard to cut the cambium cleanly for an air layer? Isn't that why we risk our fingers with really sharp knives? (Someone had to ask it) Joanie __________________ Dogs are just children who eat off the floor

14-Jun-2008

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kcpoole

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Joanie

Okay, stupid question time. Don't we try very hard to cut the cambium cleanly for an air layer? Isn't that why we risk our fingers with really sharp knives?

(Someone had to ask it)

Joanie

Yep that is what most say, but the book suggests that if it were a Jagged cut, then the reaulting nebari will look more Natural.

Ken

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