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[birds_sing]

I got John Naka's Bonsai Techniques books for Christmas, and I've started reading the first one. I'm excited about getting started (likely in the spring) with a tree of my own, and am starting to think about buying some tools. Where do you all recommend I look for good quality tools that hopefully won't cost a fortune? I'd really appreciate your

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Great job so far

[jinshari]

You are going about this all the right way. You are reading the best book out there and trying to buy quality from the beginning. You can get tools at a lot of places. I actually started sellin gstuff on my site http://www.orlandobonsai.com

However I have also made purchases from www.dallasbonsai.com and www.nwbonsai.com and had great experiences with both.

Good Luck!!!

[rabbit__]

That's true but the biggest problem that I have had since I started years ago is filtering out the . . . well . . .crappy tools from the decent ones. A lot of times you can't really tell until you get it in your hands and use it. That's always a problem with catalog or online ordering. I usually think it's better to go with a "line" of tools or a particular company that you know and trust. Unfortunately that's a hit and miss process in the beginning and only comes with hard earned experience or the advice of others (usually the way to go). I hear Joshua Roth is pretty decent but opinions seem to vary on tools. What companies do you guys like (not suppliers, I mean actual tool companies)?