Tag Archives: Bonsai carving tools

Sculpting Deadwood

wayne | 05/13/2011

Francios Jeker‘s finger and dremel power carving tool. From Bonsai Today 105 (still available). It didn’t used to be this way Have you noticed how almost everybody carves deadwood these day? It wasn’t always the case. I just thumbed through Kyuzo Murata‘s classic Four Seasons of Bonsai (first edition 1991 and long out of print) [...]

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New Products, New Low Prices

wayne | 03/26/2011

Bonsai Soil Sieve Set (3 screens). Not exactly new, but back after two years. Was $39.25, now $29.70. New, nearly new, or back after a long break This post is to let you know about new products at Stone Lantern. It’s also a way to let you know about products that were gone (for whatever [...]

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Introducing the Ichiban by Marco & Masakuni

wayne | 11/25/2009

The Ichiban. Designed by Marco Invernizzi and built by Masakuni. As you may know, Marco is a gifted Western bonsai artist, and Masakuni is the benchmark bonsai tool company. Together they have created a  revolutionary new tool for the serious bonsai artist (and the rest of us who practice the art of bonsai). The Ichiban [...]

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Some Serious New Bonsai Tools

wayne | 10/05/2009

Here’s some of our new tools (there are more) by Bonsai Aesthetics. From left to right: Rook hook, Extra large branch jack, Extra large branch bender, branch lever, and Large branch jack. Good tools and the price is right A few months ago we introduced some of Robert Steven‘s new line of bonsai tools. Robert [...]

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Jin & Shari #5: Carving Jin with a Draw Knife

wayne | 07/23/2009

In this series of photos (from our Juniper book), Hideki Nakayatsu turns a needle juniper on its side to work on the apical jin (jin can be either a dead branch or a dead top of the trunk). He is using is a draw knife to carve natural looking grooves in the wood. Though there [...]

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