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Creating a

Root Wood

Stand

ho among us has not admired ornate
stands for bonsai? Have you noticed
the ones that look like they are
supported by roots instead of legs?
W I have been playing around carving
bases for many of my viewing stones and decided to have
Text and Photos by a go at making a root wood stand. I started with a small,
Lindsay Bebb, Australia relatively soft Australian timber called Conkerberry (Carissa
lanceolata). That went OK, so I made another larger one from
Gidgee (Acacia cambagei), which is a rock-hard timber. That
also went OK, so onto to a third one, the subject of this article.
You can see the first two stands in Photo 1 below.

The Conkerberry stand is 9.5 cm high, the Gidgee one is 15 cm high, so now
this one will be 30 cm high.
The timber I selected for this project is Queensland Red Gum
(Eucalyptus tereticornis), a very hard eucalyptus variety with very nice
rich, reddish color but not normally considered for carving. It is
mostly for industrial uses.
A few years ago we decided to change our power to the house from
overhead to underground and that left us with several power poles to
cut down. One of them was from a tree about 60 years old when first
felled. It has been a power pole on the property for around 40 years. Now
I am recycling it into other stuff, including this root wood stand.

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