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| I have a lot of bamboo on my property and I figure I might as well start making stuff. Nothing fancy, just like a table or something. Is it as easy as I'm imagining or is it more complicated than it looks? This would be a casual hobby so I don't want to invest too much time on it. | |
| How do I treat the bamboo to make sure it lasts? | |
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| >>2595260 (OP) | |
| Also if anybody has any good beginner resources that cover the basics feel free to drop them thanks! | |
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| >>2595260 (OP) | |
| Picrel looks more like a wicker furniture | |
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| >>2595260 (OP) | |
| Bamboo | |
| >A relatively easy material to work with | |
| >Easier to process than wood | |
| >All you need is a machete/axe/knife to split it | |
| >You can use ropes/nails to make a platform or to connect pieces | |
| The only thing you need to look out for is what kind of bamboo do you have in your property | |
| Is it flexible? | |
| Or is it rigid? | |
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| When I looked into it, most of what I found involved quite a lot of heat treating before you can do anything because of all the water it soaks up. So maybe not easy on the hour count. | |
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| >>2595260 (OP) | |
| Also to make it last you need to dry it | |
| That's all | |
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| >>2595272 | |
| Depends on what you're trying to make | |
| Is it a simple backyard project? | |
| Or an art piece? | |
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| >>2595271 | |
| Kind of rigid and kind of flexible? | |
| >>2595274 | |
| Simple backyard project | |
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| >>2595277 | |
| How about you try to make a simple platform in the first place? | |
| Split up the bamboo with an axe | |
| And attach the splittings to another piece of bamboo | |
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| >>2595260 (OP) | |
| They treat with borax I guess. | |
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| Bamboo is hard to bend . But you also need jute rope or raffia and have patience to tie or weave dowels together . | |
| I'm on Jew Tube practically every day | |
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| >>2595260 (OP) | |
| I made several water bongs out of bamboo when I was in highschool. | |
| Took 3 or 4 tries to get it right, but I got it. | |
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| >>2595271 | |
| >Easier to process than wood | |
| Yes and no, it's easier to cut and handle than big ass logs, but unlike wood it gets more difficult to work with the drier it gets, and despite its capillary structure it doesn't re-absorb moisture to become pliable once it has been cut and dried. | |
| That mean any bending and detailed carving needs to be done when it's still mostly green or else the labor andvtooling requirements go off the charts. | |
| It also tears up cutting tools because of its high silica content. | |
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| >>2596321 | |
| >t's easier to cut and handle than big ass logs, but unlike wood it gets more difficult to work with the drier it gets, and despite its capillary structure it doesn't re-absorb moisture to become pliable once it has been cut and dried. | |
| That mean any bending and detailed carving needs to be done when it's still mostly green or else the labor andvtooling requirements go off the charts. | |
| True and the best way to work with bamboo is while it's still green anyway | |
| After the project is done you can just dry it out in the sun for a few days before using it as furniture | |
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| what is the difference between the egg, the woman and the bamboo? | |
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| >>2595260 (OP) | |
| In the US, bamboo is an ugly invasive species, get rid of it by any means | |
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| >>2596335 | |
| Bamboo can handle a beating | |
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| >>2596351 | |
| we once had lots of native bamboo but it got cut down for farmland. goybeans and corn do orders of magnitude more damage than some asian or south american bamboo | |
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| >>2596351 | |
| Bamboo isn't a species, Professor Science O. Botany. | |
| Also, there are bamboos that are native to North America- | |
| >Arundinaria is a genus of bamboo in the grass family the members of which are referred to generally as cane. Arundinaria is the only bamboo native to North America, with a native range from Maryland south to Florida and west to the southern Ohio Valley and Texas. Within this region Arundinaria canes are found from the Coastal Plain to medium elevations in the Appalachian Mountains. | |
| If anything they are not well suited to rampant spreading and their presence is vastly diminished from what it once was- | |
| >All three species of the genus Arundinaria come from the warmer parts of the Deep South, east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio River. Prior to the arrival of Europeans and the establishment of large farms and plantations, these native grasses covered vast swaths of this region. But today it’s fairly scarce and something of a novelty. | |
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| >>2595286 | |
| These are rattan, not bamboo. Rattan is solid and steam bends nicely. | |
| >>2596235 | |
| I find that waxed artificial sinew works best for lashing bamboo. | |
| >>2596351 | |
| Some bamboos clump and are not invasive. | |
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| there is a lot of forgotten or unexplored potential in this field | |
| wicker used to be the go to material prior to plastics | |