March 1, 20197 yr Popular Post Shortly after I moved into our home 10 years ago, a new neighbor moved in also. I noticed that he was doing some remodeling and was tossing some wood scraps. I couldn't believe how beautiful this wood was he had tossed. Beautifully finished and the grain was unlike anything I'd ever seen. I took some home and the plans in my head for this wood was mounting. However this stuff was very hard and split/chipped badly. I couldn't turn it on the lathe and even the fine saw blades caused it to chip. I'd never seen anything like it. I'm sure most of you have guessed by now that I was trying to use Bamboo flooring. I'd never even heard of the stuff. Now when I see it discarded.............I laugh at myself and leave it alone.
March 1, 20197 yr We used it in our kitchen. Then, the excess was used for a shop work bench top. It's tough stuff. I'd hate to try to actually build anything with it.
March 1, 20197 yr It is actually considered a grass. It grows fast and is hard. I wonder what the moisture content is of a freshly cut piece and how do they dry it.
March 1, 20197 yr Author 55 minutes ago, HandyDan said: It is actually considered a grass. It grows fast and is hard. I wonder what the moisture content is of a freshly cut piece and how do they dry it. I can believe it is a glass. My wife has a couple of small cutting boards made from it and they work really good. The cost was a lot cheaper than I thought.
March 1, 20197 yr My wife has a few cutting boards made of bamboo. ……………...cheaper also than I can make one if I consider the cost of hardwood...so I have never made a cutting board!!. Some time ago I bought a few one of a kind boxes of flooring at an auction and one happened to be bamboo..one thing I did find when your rip it and sand the edge smooth don't even run your finger along the edge to see if it needs more sanding or not.. I pulled out a splinter about an inch long out of my hand and it was so small I could barely see it. Something I did learn after starting to make things with the bamboo is they don't stain the wood and the only way to change colors is the amount of heat it gets in the drying process is what makes the different shades of its original color. I read where some bamboo will grow about a foot a day in some places I also watched a program where these ten guys or so spent a month of cutting a large barge full of bamboo then spending lots of days on rivers and an ocean or two to a big city and finally delivering it to where they were building a real tall building and all the bamboo was used as scaffolding. Edited March 1, 20197 yr by Smallpatch
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