Bonsai Repotting Sickle
Grab your root hook and transplanting sickle or scythe a curved sharp saw or cutting edge and saw or cut around the edge of the pot to remove the root ball without tearing it apart.
Bonsai repotting sickle. The first step to repotting your bonsai is cutting the wires tying the tree into the pot. This tree needs to be repotted as the roots circle around the root mass. The blade is made from stainless steel and is shorter thicker for heavier tasks such as cutting along the inside edges of the pot during repotting and transplanting. Carbon steel 85mm blade kikuwa brand made in japan.
When the roots are still contained in soil wait another year before checking again. Large japanese bonsai repotting root pruning sickle bonsai re potting sickle use to release trees from bonsai pots with in turned rim 260mm overall length. A bonsai needs to be repotted when the roots circle around the root system. Many uses around the bonsai workshop including wood carving cutting stripping splitting and grafting b.
Re potting sickles are indispensable tools when it comes to removing a pot bound tree from its container. Do not repot on a routine instead check on your trees every early spring by carefully removing the tree from its pot. Our bonsai re potting knife sickle and wood carving knife is a fantastic tool for releasing bonsai from pots with in turned rims prior to re potting. Originally used for cutting and shaping grass sod this saw like sickle is excellent for separating soil and roots when re potting bonsai.
An excellent small light bonsai tree grass sickle. Saw teeth sickles are great tools for cutting bonsai roots when you transplant. Repotting sickle by masakuni 128 00 a very useful tool for removing root bound bonsai trees from tight pots. Works especially well on pot bound trees.
Bonsai tree repotting tool saw blade sickle 5 the most suitable tool for loosen the roots from the edges of the bonsai pot. These tools are used regularly by our in house artists for show trees as well as beginner trees.