Bonsai Deadwood Maintenance

In this video Josh will take you through the techniques used to clean and maintain deadwood and also show the tools used in the process. This work is performed on a tree that had already had shari work done in the past but needs a clean up and a re application of lime sulphur.
0:00 Intro
0:22 Tree's History
4:05 Tools Used
7:00 Deadwood Cleaning
18:30 Lime Sulphur Application
28:34 Last Comments
29:42 Results
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[@davidmorgan3508]

Aussie Dave here Josh, what a wonderful video, please keep them coming 🙏 😀

[@danielfonseca5007]

Nice follow up to the last vid which was how to carve a Shari. Thanks for the really well thought out vid and the great info

[@Akatsuki-En]

Always a pleasure watching your videos amazing work and the shots at the end were 😮

[@givetanks]

You should also be wearing a respirator, especially inside , with scraping it with previous lime sulphur on it

[@R3dL1ght5]

great I was looking for an application vid, and the tip to wet the wood is good. I would suspect it has to do with a wood working trick where you wet the wood and then do a final sand because it pops the wood and cleans the pores that were clogged on a microscopic level from the sand paper or in this case the stainless brush

[@BonsaiEn]

Yeah as mentioned i have never wet the wood before applying and it always turns out nice and lasts a long time. It does generally require 2 coats though as the first coat soaks in then the second coat tends to stain. I also notice that when people wet first the lime sulphur tends to run too much where as putting it on dry it soaks in rather then running. But I do understand that's just me who does that and 99% of other people do wet first.

[@R3dL1ght5]

@@BonsaiEn thank you for your response! My mistake you did not wet the wood and I can understand why, Good insights on the technique. I have a few pieces that have to be treated this year, might experiment. This is from my limited wood working experience as a professional metal fabricator, the same technique is used with mineral spirits or even rubbing alcohol for a faster evaporation.