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In the first work session on the tree most of the main wiring had been done to the secondary and tertiary branches of the main bottom right hand branch, wiring pairs of branches together with one wire length to provide a firm stable anchor to enable the branches to be bent to the desired location. In this second session of work any main secondary or tertiary branches that had not been wired in the earlier session were wired and re-positioned. This was followed by fine wiring all the individual foliage needle clusters using annealed copper wire ranging between 1mm and 0.8mm diameter.
   
View of branch from above
View of branch from side
Views of bottom right hand branch (July 2006)
 

In building up foliage pads on white pines the objective is to create a pad which is built up by tiers of individual needle clusters, arranged in such a way that each needle cluster receives maximum light and builds in height from the perimeter of the pad in towards the trunk line.
Therefore you arrange individual needle clusters to form a level perimeter, any downward pointing needles need to be removed. Behind the perimeter layer you arrange another tier of needle clusters, and behind that layer you arrange another tier and so on. The height of each layer is positioned slightly above the one in front so you end up with a pad profile similar in shape to an aerofoil, thinner on the outside edge and thicker the further in to the trunk line.
 
View of branch from above View of bottom right hand branch from the side (July 2006)
 

Having completed the bottom right hand branch foliage pad work carried on with wiring to two back bottom branches and the bottom left hand branch to create profiled foliage pads.
The following pictures were taken after probably around 20 hours work over a number of individual work sessions.
   
Front view of tree
Back view of tree
View of front of the tree (August 2006)
View of back of the tree (August 2006)
 
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