Bonsai Tree Table

[Bob Reda]

A few years ago someone posted a vector file of a Bonsai tree table, I've searched through all the archives and am able to locate it. Can somone point me in the right direction.

Thanks
Bob

[Frank Corker]

Bob look at the posts made by Joe Pelonio, I'm sure that was one of his designs.

[Frank Corker]

I kept it. I think this is the one.

[Bob Reda]

Thats the one Frank, Thanks a million.

Bob

[Joe Pelonio]

Someone else a woodworker and bonsai enthusiast? Or is it for a customer?

Just curious, I have about 75 bonsai currently. Don't need many tables though, since I hardly ever display them except here at home.

[Frank Corker]

Joe take a few pics, I'd be interested in seeing them, what's the oldest that you have?

[Joe Pelonio]

Joe take a few pics, I'd be interested in seeing them, what's the oldest that you have?

I'm leaving today for a ten day road trip, but have this picture of my oldest from a few months ago. It's over 140 years old, a Mountain Hemlock that came from Vancouver Island, BC. No, I'm not quite that old, it was dug at
already 130.

[Mike Null]

Joe

That is beautiful.

How do you determine the age? (assuming you weren't there)

[Dee Gallo]

Wow Joe, that is spectacular - I went to a Bonsai exhibition in SF once which was picketed by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Trees ... couldn't believe such a group existed, but that's California for ya.

dee

[Frank Corker]

That is beautiful. 140 year old, jeepers!

[Belinda Barfield]

Joe has posted quite a few photos of his bonsai beauties on the Off Topic forum. He has some beautiful specimens.

[Larry Bratton]

Gosh..how did that poem go..I think I shall never see anything as lovely as tree? Especially one of Joe's. How do you determine how old it is?

[Bob Reda]

Joe,

Thanks for the file. You have a very lovely Bonsai plant. Are yousure you didn't plant it? Actually I needed the file for both reasons you asked about. I am starting a little nursery and wanted to have a couple bonsai plants for display. Now if I can only wait 140 years

[Joe Pelonio]

Wow Joe, that is spectacular - I went to a Bonsai exhibition in SF once which was picketed by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Trees ... couldn't believe such a group existed, but that's California for ya.

dee

Naturally, we are on the way down there now. Staying over at Salem, Oregon then another 8 hours driving tomorrow. Hopefully we'll see the sun.

There are several methods for determining the age of a tree, the counting of rings sometimes works for bonsai because one might remove a large branch and create a hollow and have s good sample. On the other hand, some aging is done by counting nodes on the branches and knowing average growth rates for that variety in that area. Naturally the most accurate method is carbon dating. In this case I don't know what method was used, however it was given to me by a good friend who obtained it from a well known collector of "yamadori", or trees from the wild for bonsai, and I trust his judgment. Seeing a closeup of the base of the trunk it does look like one of the old forest trees but just stunted.

[Dan Hintz]

Tried my hand at Bonsai trees once... once I don't believe I ever killed it, but it started out looking much better than when I "released it back into the wild", so to speak. That was during my college days, so maybe lack of time was the issue.