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Assess the angle and structure

Area of pale
dead wood

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Inspect the nebari at the base. Use To explore the extent of dead wood, Assess the front view. This pine has
tweezers to clean away soil and moss to carefully remove the bark until you hit one strong root and an interesting dead
expose any character points—both good living tissue—on pines the difference wood section in the base; the tree can be
and bad. Here, the sphagnum moss has is easy to spot. Stop when you get to the angled so that both will be seen from the
been hiding some interesting dead wood. edge, and clean up the exposed wood. front, with branching toward the right.

Create new features
The newly
created jin

A long stump
can be reduced
in stages to
create a more
natural effect

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Identify unsightly branches. Here, two Create new dead wood. Pines have soft, Refine the stump and create the jin.
branches growing upward go against fast-growing wood that rots quickly, so Strip the bark by crushing and pulling
the flow of the tree. They were left to stumpy jin, exposed shari, and hollowed it away with pliers, or tear off the layers
help thicken up the trunk, but can be out trunks often occur naturally. Cut off with branch pruners to expose the grain,
used to make a dead wood feature (jin). the branch, leaving a long stump. creating a rough, torn appearance.