How Do You Shape An Artificial Christmas Tree?
“Right now, our artificial Christmas tree looks, shall we say, anorexic. So we need to work on that by shaping the branches. A lot of these actual little branches are actually made out of plastics or other synthetics which are actually meant to bow and bend, which is nice because we can compact them for storage, but then fluff them out to make a better looking tree. I recommend, in difference to how we actually made the tree (which was from bottom to the top), to actually go from the top down. Because, the thing of it is, is usually you want to be bringing the branches down. Often times they will be up, kind of like a closed flower. So what you want to do, starting at the top, you just start to press down to get these branches closer to a ninety degree angle. Now, they don’t have to be all out at ninety degrees. Actually, if you’ve seen real trees, especially at the top, the branches will largely be going upward. They won’t be going totally flat. So basically what you are going to do i
