Monthly Meetings
All meeting will be held on the usual dates (forth monday of the month) at:
The Kew Masonic Centre
31-33 Strathalbyn Street,
East Kew
New members are more than welcome. See you there at 8pm!
HIROTOSHI SAITO WILL BE IN MELBOURNE FROM JUNE 26th TO JULY 8th 2010 SO NOW IS THE TIME TO SELECT MATERIAL FOR WORKSHOPS.
PROGRAMME WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON.
Well, our first meeting for 2009 got off to a great start with a major piece of surgery and styling being performed on a Japanese black pine. A piece of ordinary stock with many faults was carved, bent and wired into a form that was much improved. It was a drastic
operation that is rarely seen at
demonstrations. What a great start to the year and hopefully a taste of things to come!
The tree as it arrived. It was wrapped the night
before in a wet towel to increase the barks
flex ability.
It was then hollowed out via carving......
to form a channel where wires could be placed
and also to make the trunk more flexible....
...it was then wrapped in
raffia and rubber .....
...And bent....
....then wired to form the finished product
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