More trees to grow !
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Jim R
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Hi John
What an interesting update. Looking at the finished ones it looks as if you've cracked it.
Must confess you seem to living high on the hog out there in the Fens - meat trays and kitchen roll. We're down to our last tin of Spam and the 4 sheets of kitchen paper we have left are saved for an emergency
Jim
What an interesting update. Looking at the finished ones it looks as if you've cracked it.
Must confess you seem to living high on the hog out there in the Fens - meat trays and kitchen roll. We're down to our last tin of Spam and the 4 sheets of kitchen paper we have left are saved for an emergency
Jim
Hi Andy, cheers , if you can wait until the end of June we can talk more then about thisGreat stuff John, will you come and do my garden?
Andy.
.Hi John
What an interesting update. Looking at the finished ones it looks as if you've cracked it.
Must confess you seem to living high on the hog out there in the Fens - meat trays and kitchen roll. We're down to our last tin of Spam and the 4 sheets of kitchen paper we have left are saved for an emergency
Jim
Thanks Jim, pleased that you mentioned about they could end all mixed up, other wise I might well have just put them all straight in a tub.
Living well until two weeks time , then no more slots so the fish in the pond had better look out.
John.
Jim R
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Hi John
Delivery slots seem to be nonexistant. We have no fish so the dog is looking increasingly worried.
Jim
Delivery slots seem to be nonexistant. We have no fish so the dog is looking increasingly worried.
Jim
Steve Jones
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Wonderful result with the green stuff JR. You really are the Percy Thrower of the modelling world. Great stuff mate
Jim, hard times, hard decisions, but not the dog . We have a pair of Magpies, and a whole gang of pigeons.
That's very kind of you Steve, sorry I didn't ring today. Will do tomorrow.
John .
John. Nice it’s so wet here I can’t till my garden I may take your advice and grow my veggies in the house
Thanks Lee, hope your able to work on it soon, you have such a great piece of land.JR, Don't let Matron catch you rolling a joint out of that stuff you are so lovingly caring for...and by the way smoking that stuff won't cure COVID 19 either, so don't even think about it!
We are safe Rick, Matron is stuck in her house as her husband has a cold. !!
Afternoon all .
Yesterday the weights came off the now dry and fully pressed leaves.
Made a start this morning on the first one, using a small drill bit .
A series of holes were drilled into the trunk. Then followed the rather fiddly gluing with ca the stems in.
After approx 2 hrs I have managed this .
My only concern is that the top, but thinning the trunk would leave so little material to drill into. Any ideas please
Thanks
John .
Yesterday the weights came off the now dry and fully pressed leaves.
Made a start this morning on the first one, using a small drill bit .
A series of holes were drilled into the trunk. Then followed the rather fiddly gluing with ca the stems in.
After approx 2 hrs I have managed this .
My only concern is that the top, but thinning the trunk would leave so little material to drill into. Any ideas please
Thanks
John .
Hi Buddy,
Andy has a great idea there! It's all trial and error anyway until you're happy with it. They look nice and green too!!!!
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Andy has a great idea there! It's all trial and error anyway until you're happy with it. They look nice and green too!!!!
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Hi John,
That's a great idea.
Suggestion, lay the 'trunk' down on the bench and then sand it to a taper by sanding and rotating the 'trunk' backwards and forwards over its full length. And if you point the top branch up you could disguise the top. Like this fellow.
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That's a great idea.
Suggestion, lay the 'trunk' down on the bench and then sand it to a taper by sanding and rotating the 'trunk' backwards and forwards over its full length. And if you point the top branch up you could disguise the top. Like this fellow.
Mike.
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Just a thought John, but if you had tapered the stick from further down (like a ships mast) it might not have looked so obvious. But great work anyway.
Andy.
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I like to put the top-branches up, perhaps you can mask the trunk a bit more when you ad some more up-growing small leaves?
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Thanks guys, yes agree entirely.
Think the problems is with the thickness of the trunk. I need to thin it down more, the problem after that will be in drilling the holes in a very thin top section.
Out with the large belt sander tomorrow, mask on, invert the sander and turn them all down
Think will need to do another gathering of branches as well.
All good fun along with the fact that these branches look more like the European larch which in fact actually loses its colour in the winter.
John
Jim R
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Hi John
Certainly shows promise. Are the ferns stiff now they are dry or does the preserving keep them flexible?
Jim
Certainly shows promise. Are the ferns stiff now they are dry or does the preserving keep them flexible?
Jim
Steve Jones
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Nice to see these in the vertical position. When you se Mike's photo you realise how realistic they are. Great stuff mate.
Evening Jim, thanks , getting there slowly. The ferns are relatively flexible after the treatment. Bend one too far on the stem and they will collapse.
Cheers mate, once I sort out that thinning. Think part of the problem is the hight, in relation to scale , Siberian Larch (Larix sibirica) can reach up to 40mtrs and have a trunk diameter of up to 1mtr. There's no way these model trees could replicate that mature hight , so some measurements will need to be scaled tomorrow.
John .
Maybe use the back of a blade point to press a slot to mount the upper branches rather than drilling ounce tapered. Ferns really came out great. PaulE