Tntthunder
Yamadori
So I think I've got wiring down pretty well, it's neat, it's not tight, not loose, I am doing the two branch/slingshot method, no crossing wire etc. I feel it's going great.
However when it gets to the bending part I am struggling a lot and lacking a lot of skill. When I bend the wire loosens, it keeps the branch/trunk in place but but had gaps now and isn't neat. It looks tight in some places, loose in others etc. What am I doing wrong?
Also how am I meant to hold the tree when I bend it to help stop it from breaking and tearing etc. Is there a specific place I hold? A specific place I push and so on. Any and all advice for bending will be great.
I am also kinda paranoid of killing branches as last year I wired and bent but all the branches died in the winter. But now my wiring is much better and I think I didn't protect them well enough in the winter...still makes me nervous to think it's not that and maybe I was too rough.
So far I have been practicing of freshly cut branches and on young junipers with thin and flexible trunks, with the trunks I have been doing crazy twists, up, down, left, right, forward and back and so on but in some part the wire stays, others it tightens and others it loosens. How do I get crazy cool bends people always say to put in, but also nice neat wire?
However when it gets to the bending part I am struggling a lot and lacking a lot of skill. When I bend the wire loosens, it keeps the branch/trunk in place but but had gaps now and isn't neat. It looks tight in some places, loose in others etc. What am I doing wrong?
Also how am I meant to hold the tree when I bend it to help stop it from breaking and tearing etc. Is there a specific place I hold? A specific place I push and so on. Any and all advice for bending will be great.
I am also kinda paranoid of killing branches as last year I wired and bent but all the branches died in the winter. But now my wiring is much better and I think I didn't protect them well enough in the winter...still makes me nervous to think it's not that and maybe I was too rough.
So far I have been practicing of freshly cut branches and on young junipers with thin and flexible trunks, with the trunks I have been doing crazy twists, up, down, left, right, forward and back and so on but in some part the wire stays, others it tightens and others it loosens. How do I get crazy cool bends people always say to put in, but also nice neat wire?