article_snippet.sent: Gavin Munro  grows young trees into specially-designed plastic moulds, pruning and guiding the branches into shape before grafting young trees together to form ultra-tough joints.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Munro, 39, a keen environmentalist explains: 'You start by training and pruning young tree branches as young tree branches grow over specially made formers. '
article_snippet.sent: At certain points we then graft young tree branches together so that the object grows in to one solid piece -
article_snippet.sent: After it's grown into the shape we want, we continue to care and nurture the tree as the tree thickens and matures before harvesting the tree in the Winter and then letting the tree season and dry. '
article_snippet.sent: Wife Alice, 40, explains: 'Just like a broken bone will be a lot stronger where a broken bone heals, the points where the wood is grafted are extremely strong.
article_snippet.sent: But it's not simply a matter of setting up the molds and sitting back and letting the trees grow into shape.
article_snippet.sent: The technique involves copious amounts of pruning, coppicing and grafting.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Munro added: 'The whole process takes place over seasons and years - between four and eight years to grow a chair for example. '
article_snippet.sent: But when you look at how long and how much effort it actually takes us now to go from having no tree to final wooden object
article_snippet.sent: but for every 100 trees you grow
article_snippet.sent: there are a 1,000 branches you need to care for and 10,000 shoots you have to prune at the right time.  
highlights_snippet.sent: British designer prunes and grafts growing trees directly into shape .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: British designer prunes and grafts growing trees directly into shape .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Mainly using willow but also sycamore, ash, hazel and crab apple .
  