Creating deadwood in bonsai design is done by either making a wound that will later need to be healed or digging deep into the core fibers of the tree’s tissue—connecting pieces of deadwood that give the impression of wildness and age. Build your skills around non-traditional techniques and aesthetic creation of bonsai deadwood on a pine tree to remedy structural issues and create visual interest.
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You guys at Mirai are awesome. Not only are you cultivating amazing bonsai trees but you have also inspired me and many other bonsai nerds to learn more, to expand our knowledge and to dare to push the limits in order to lift upp and create an Awesome tree that is true to nature.
Also The level of knowledge in each and every video is top noch education 😎👍🏽 thank You Mr Neil and The Mirai team. Also did Troy quit Mirai? 😕
“when I invest my chisel into the wood…” why don’t you talk like a normal person and stop irritating everyone?
👆 – FIND YOUR LOVE IN YOU CITY! 🍒💦q🥰
Good morning…
Ryan thank you very much for sharing this very interesting and instructive video! I really admire your great preparation,talent and professionalism and so you are for me a great source of inspiration….very compliments!👍👍👍👍🔥
Thank you Mirai team for this!
was it recorded this year? i'd love to see how is it now the tree
Total 👏👏👏👍
Your amazing knowledge, techniques, and skill, make me feel so inadequate. But at the same time as to motivating me to rewatch you dozens of times to learn and gain insight into this tremendous art I love. Thanks again for all this that you give us !
Ode to the pines
To weathering wood
To creative vision
Sculpting
and
Our relationships with growth over time….
Thanks for the very informative video Ryan, but you need to use a chisel with a ferrule around the top of the handle and a woodworker's mallet to prevent it splittting when you hit it.
The concept of how trees decay as described is a game changer. Thank you for pointing out this critical part of the bonsai puzzle. I have never had the process explained properly until now.
If at all possible may I possibly suggest a session reviewing this theme in its full extent. I’m assuming soft wood trees rot from the inside but I have seen this in oaks which is fairly hard wood. Deciduous trees? Cypress? Redwood trees seem to have very a strong core despite damage from fire. They remain standing. I’ve been toying with buying a large potted redwood tree and have been pondering how I’m going to do the deadwood work. There was a great redwood at the Pacific Expo that was inspiring. It was almost completely hollowed out. Now I realize while it looked good in that glimmering light it is not at all how a redwood would ever deteriorate in the wild. Not that all trees need to imitate nature but they must tell a story. That story should ideally stay constant.
Thank you again for another quantum step in my bonsai progression of knowledge.
Mats H.
Thank you Ryan and the team for a fantastic exhibition of deadwood work. Very inspirational, and I can't wait to try this technique. I don't have any big old pines, but I presume that I can use these techniques on a yew or European hawthorn tree?
Thank you for your teaching. Hope one day I'll visit Mirai 🙂
Thank you to all Mirai team!
Inspiring work!
What is the name of that fancy piece of machinery at the end? I must have one 😅
Awesome demonstration!
Thank you!
nice .. keep the videos coming … I really enjoyed watching .
The degree of teaching you provide is amazing, truely one of the best. You mentioned the tools used, type of chisels and root cutters that can with stand this degree of work can you tell us exactly what they were and maybe where we can get them
You mention the flame and its avoidance at times, I wonder what different results could be achieved from an imitated lightning strike.