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I'm not familiar with This wood type. I'll bet I've seen it and just thought it was artificial, as most outdoor projects seem to be. I am also interested it playing around with some of it. My neighbor put in a new floor. A beautiful highly grained wood.

I collected some of his scraps, thinking I could make some knitting needles on my mini lathe. Everything I did with it was a disaster. It was so darn hard and it splintered easy. I asked what it was and someone said Bamboo. If it was, it sure fooled me.

Anyone know what bamboo wood or IPE is like to work with using shop machinery?

 

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I am looking into the same thing. I know Ipe is a great outdoors wood, very hard and dense. Also it does not float in water. I understand it is hard to work and asked about it in another forum post here. Harry replied about some information on Woodworkers Source. As I did into this I will let you know what comes of it. Please do the same.

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