Rick, I just knew the third photo wouldn't get past you without your noticing something about it!
The "endowment" was not intentional...there was a long root that needed to be cut out, but I didn't have a good tool at the time that I could get down under to smooth out the "belly." Now that I have a set of bonsai tools I can probably do a better job, including smoothing off the bumps on the legs.