Mike123
Shohin
Barberry 
Got URO...Please share if you do
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BobbyLane
Imperial Masterpiece
Another Privet..
Before n after Uro
Before n after Uro
Cadillactaste
Neagari Gal
@BobbyLane You sure have that carving thing down...how hard to do carve per session?
BobbyLane
Imperial Masterpiece
It depends really, on that Privet i only decided to remove the bark and make the front a dead wood feature a few weeks after doing the Uro. I try to do it in stages though, but its easy to get carried away.
If Uro is to 'carve out' then i also use them on Yews, here is one ive recently been working on, apart from jinning branches on Yew i also like to hollow the ends out of thick branches, this happens in nature also...this Yew tree is actually a twin trunk, ive been styling to look like one massive trunk that was split by lightening or a heavy branch breaking away...
3 of the heavy branches on my tree have been hollowed right out
Shima
Omono
3 uro on this bottle brush, all connected. In oribe pot then in more the shape I'm looking for. Painted as an experiment.
Cadillactaste
Neagari Gal
@Shima your sphere background...I believe one of your trees drew inspiration to me I seen on a FB bonsai group. I was having trouble with seeing fall colors/or fruit in something other than similar colored pots. This photo really opened my eyes...to seeing why some use complimentary colors from the color wheel...
Yours?
Yours?
Shima
Omono
Yes. Got a few for $2.! A woman in a high end community of the bay area had them made as drip trays for 1/2 gal. whisky barrels on her flat roof but they were so heavy the roof sagged. They must have been quite expensive. Heavy copper with a rolled edge. Currently it's the image at the top of my FB page. Glad it inspired you. Oh, it's the icon here too! Duh.
Bruce Winter
Bruce Winter
Cadillactaste
Neagari Gal
Yes. Got a few for $2.! A woman in a high end community of the bay area had them made as drip trays for 1/2 gal. whisky barrels on her flat roof but they were so heavy the roof sagged. They must have been quite expensive. Heavy copper with a rolled edge. Currently it's the image at the top of my FB page. Glad it inspired you. Oh, it's the icon here too! Duh.
Bruce Winter
Sweet score!
Cotyledon
Mame
Uro is carved out deciduous ? Nice trees!
Giga
Masterpiece
Here's an older pic of my pear
CWTurner
Omono
Beech in my local park.
CW
CW
CWTurner
Omono
Forgot to mention... the upper left part of that opening (Uro?) has healed around the opening so that the tree in that area is only about 2"-3" thick.
CW
CW
Jeremy
Shohin
Jeremy
Shohin
Shima
Omono
Which one?
Vance Wood
Lord Mugo
Geezzzz, how about some details? Or; how about a video??
Sorry, no video.
This is a JBP that was grown from seed starting maybe 15 years ago. A "seedling cutting". Allowed to get big by the use of sacrifice branches. Then removing them.
Anyway, I aquire X this tree a little over a year ago, and it was very unhealthy, so I spent s year nursing it back to health. One side of the tree had a huge Buda belly. Formed by swelling of many sacrifice branches.
I was going to make it the back of the tree and graft on new branches.
Boon suggested taking a different approach. Make a huge Uro out of it.
Before:
We decided to open it up and try to connect the Uros inside. And follow the lifelines.
The first part, Boon started with a hand tool to follow the sap line.
I then use a deemed to deepen it. Sorry, no picture of that. I was doing the cutting.
Then Boon used a drill to connect another Uro to the groove I had created with the dremel:
After a little more work:
We decided to leave it there and let it recover from that. The tree was Aldo decandled, and some needles pulled.
I have bought a couple carving bits from Graham Potter that I will use to deepen the carving. Eventually making it pretty hollow.
And we're starting a new sacrifice to thicken up the apex.
Project tree!
Vance Wood
Lord Mugo
Very nice. Good to see the progression of the work.
Giga
Masterpiece
Is that the titanium coated Uro bit?
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