Japanese Black Pine-02 - structural development

This is the second Kuromatsu that I acquired on my last trip to Sydney. This is the start of its transformation.

Still a lot of development work ahead of this one as well.

Japanese Black Pine branches can be bent to very acute angles. With the combination of branch 'v-cuts', thick copper wire, and 'guy wires', I can eliminate the need for raffia wrapping and other cumbersome techniques.