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Top left; This view was chosen to be the front side of the bonsai.
Top right; The next stage was deciding which of the live veins on the trunk and branches to keep.
Bottom; Then peeling and stripping off the bark and cambium on the parts of the trunk and branches that were not wanted and creating interesting shari.
The damaged ares that occurred during training are cleaned, then some bark is carefully removed following the natural line of the bark from the damaged part at the top to the damaged part at the bottom. To dramatize the shari, the cut is deepened by stripping the wood fibers along the grain so that it will look natural. The same thing is done on the lower branch. A strip of bark is peeled from the tip to where it meets the trunk and the wood below is stripped.
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