Drifted wood for shimps.

[kvan64]

I got a couple drifted woods and quite a few very long and thin trunk shimpaku jups. I was thinking about caving deep trenches and burry the branches of the shimps so that when they grow, the trunks will secure themselves and swell out of the trenches and look like live veins. That the idea but don't know what to use for carving trenches on extremely hardwood (these driftedwoods are rockhard and rockheavy). I also am not sure which alighment and which style is the best. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

[Jamie]

gday DK

those pieces of drift wood are nice!! where did you get them? find them? a carbide tooth rotart bit should be able to get through it even with the deadwood being quite hard. i found bit number 199 is great, but there are others that will chew through the wood without to much issue either. bit 115, 114, 134 will take out a nice channel.

heres the dremel site with the different tools that will work for most things when carving.
http://www.dremel.com/en-au/Attachments ... ed+Cutters


that formal upright will be a very nice tree mate keen to see what you do with them

jamie

[kvan64]

Thanks jamie. I think I need a wheel cutter or somehing like bit 199 from the website but a bit bigger. Some part of the wood is half petrified. When you knock on it, it sounds like rock. I bought mines from the local stone merchant. He sells drifted woods petrified/fossil woods for $4 a kg. The thing is they are very heavy. That peice in the first pic is near 3kg.

[Jamie]

hi mate,

to get into them i would get one of the lathe bit carving tools brett found out, or buy a weasel or termite bit from over the pond at kaizenbonsai.com they are a little expensive but well worth it to get through the hard stuff

[BGM1971]

Hi
Another place to look at for carving stuff is Carba-Tec
https://www.carbatec.com.au/
They have a lot of different stuff, but can be a bit expensive.
If your after a book to have a look at, try and find a copy of The Art of Bonsai Design - Colin Lewis.
I found this book very informative.

Maybe I should get up off my butt and do something with mine!
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All the best with your new project.

BGM1971

[kvan64]

Thanks jamie, Kaizenbonsai does has good bonsai carving tools there. I saw some of them in action through youtube and really like them. However, they are so expensive.
BGM, Carbartec does have some serious carving tools there for reasonable price. I may give them a go.
Thanks mates.
DK