What tools and materials are needed for bonsai production?

There are many tools for making bonsai. Let me give you a brief introduction.

First, scissors.

Pruning scissors, versatile, pruning leaves and cutting roots, thinner aluminum wires are also cut correctly. I have it in my hand. Pruning shears now have electric versions, and it is said that the power rattles.

Branch shears are used to trim shoots, leaves and buds. Many bonsai producers will also pick them directly by hand. The leaves are tender and easy to pick, and the tender branches can cause natural tearing.

Ball shears, as the name implies, have a spherical cutting edge, which is mainly used to trim the incision, making the incision spherical or irregular, which is beneficial to wound recovery and makes a "horse eye" effect.

Oblique shear, with sharp cutting edge, is mainly used in bifurcated and narrow places where flat shear is inconvenient to trim.

Rod-breaking scissors are used to break branches from them to facilitate the bending or modeling of thick rods.

Root-cutting scissors are similar in shape to ball scissors, but the blade is flat.

Wire drawing pliers are used to draw coiled and formed metal wires. It is also used to tear branches and bark to obtain natural tearing effect.

Broken wire scissors, cut wire.

There are two kinds of wires: metallic and nonmetallic. The metals are aluminum and copper. The effect is not too bad, but it must be expensive. Non-metallic materials, such as brown silk, plastic rope and cloth, are of course expensive.

The function of thread is to shape, increase the toughness of branches, prevent cracking, moisturize and so on. Nowadays, bonsai artists are mostly used in combination.

Hand saw, saw off the extra branches and roots. It is recommended to buy a saw with a narrow face, which is convenient to use in a narrow space.

Pruner is mainly used for bending and shaping branches, and it saves energy through the lever principle.

Take a bending machine, the trimmer on it will be bent and shaped immediately, and then fixed with wire or other things. This machete is formed by bending step by step, step by step. They have the same function, but the technical time is different.

For branches with poor flexibility, it is suitable to stretch and bend bit by bit with a bending machine; For branches with good flexibility, or branches that can reach a certain flexibility by artificial means (such as winding aluminum wires and breaking bars), they can be bent and formed by a molding machine at one time, and of course, the branches should be protected to prevent cracking due to excessive force.