That's exactly how I learned to wire. I actually thanked Colin about a year ago for offering that free to ones.
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Will do. I'll continue to mess with it. I do have a question, why is placing the wire clockwise or counterclockwise a thing? I didn't really understand why you use one for bending up and the other for bending down?
Hey, a second recommendation is never a bad thing!Practice on sticks or branches you have pruned off a tree. Or a mock up.
This is actually a really good lesson. Even clearer explained than how Ryan Neil would do it.
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Edit, oh it was already posted. Yeah, this is the golden standard. There is a very longform video on YT about how to wire satsuki, that is also pretty good. But it is not highly educational.
If you have a Y, one side will be CW, the other will need to be CCW to hold it securely (going around the outside of the fork). Otherwise, you have to wire thru the middle of the crotch and that doesn't anchor as well. When Boon sees that he says "Yin Yang. Do it again." (The wire going from one side, into the crotch and onto the other side looks vaguely like the yinyang symbol if you squint and are kind of imaginative.)
That makes so much sense. I was wondering what I was missing.
