The master makes bonsai: this olive stump is too ugly for the master to come up with tricks.

For this guy Graham, I think it's a little paranoid. Seeing a tree stump is like getting it back and doing it, so picking up stakes everywhere can't be called digging stakes, but picking them up everywhere, construction sites and firewood piles in other people's homes, as long as it's a stump. The olive stump was probably picked up from someone else's firewood pile, with a big pimple below and only half a branch left. Picked it up and raised it for several years, and made some morphological adjustments to it during that time. To say that this pile is not useless. We noticed that there is another branch near the big pimple, which can be cut off under high pressure to make a small boutique alone, because that half of the branch has been long for a long time, and the dead wood above has been very mature. Then take good care of the following part, let it grow more branches, and then make a triangular mushroom head, so you can get two boutique bonsai. But he seems to keep it in its present state. All right, let's see what you can do with this ugly guy.

There is also a dead branch on this big pimple, which used to be a big branch, which was broken and left behind, so there is no transition between the upper half of the branch and the pimple.

There is also a wound that was sawed off a long time ago.

Okay. Or follow his old routine. Carve where it is not suitable, and wear off what can be worn off.

The part left behind by the broken branch must be thinned so that there is a transition and looks more harmonious.

It's too slow to grind. You'd better use a chisel.

As for this kind of old pimple, if the bare ball is not good-looking, it is best to do some local hollowing out, so it looks more vicissitudes and less monotonous.

Make the transition between the branches and bumps and polish the surface with an electric metal brush to make it look more natural.

For that half of the branch, it has been a long time, and the surface has been oxidized because of the sun and rain for a long time. You only need to clean it with a metal brush.

The final result, to tell the truth, is not very good-looking, can only be said to be better than the original state. However, if you bend that half of the branch a little more inward, the effect will be much better, but the operation is a little more difficult, because half of the dead wood, unlike fresh wood, can be bent at will, and the dead wood does not bend much. This tree may also be put in the yard to collect a number, or give it away, it is estimated that no one will pay to buy it.