Cant see the wood for the trees
Stage 1 construction
Once all of the insulation from the wire has been stripped the real fun begins. a word of warning if you have soft hands this next bit will make your hands/finger sore. Gather together as many strands of the wire as required…I used three lengths….how long is up to you the longer the strands the taller the tree for a guide as you will be folding these in half to twist together cut to approx twice the height you are aiming on making.
Once gathered together fold in half and twist the folded end tightly together to form a trunk…this will leave a loop of wire at the bottom.
Separate in to other parts to then make the main core branches, twist, separate again gradually forming smaller and smaller branches.
At this point i would like to point out that You tube is a wealth of information as to the technique for making this kind of tree giving much better instruction than i could ever hope to emulate so go check them out for a more detailed example.
proto type 1st attempt at twist tree
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