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October 2014: Alistair using steel wire brushes fitted to a Dremel to clean the newly created deadwood further.

October 2014: With the lesson drawing to a close for the day, we stopped cleaning and refining the deadwood, and rinsed it down with water to remove the dust created by carving.

October 2014: Before Alistair gave the deadwood a coat of lime-sulphur to whiten it.

October 2014: The lime-sulphur drying at the end of the first styling session. Note that the aged deadwood turns white almost immediately (if it has been pre-wetted with water) whereas the newly created, sappy deadwood is slow to whiten at first, if at all. As the live-veins have been cut conservatively and have not contained a sapflow (from root to foliage) for a couple of months, there has been no saploss or bleeding and it has not been necessary to apply a wound sealant of any kind to its newly-cut edge.

The following day a second styling session would be carried out, this time to place the wired branches, clean the live-veins of old bark and dirt, and to photograph the bonsai!

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