I recently came across a box of bamboo flooring and figured it just might make a good looking and decent gun. I want to build something for here in southern california, so probabley 55" or so. The stuff looks super straight when I checked it out, extremly dense and once glued up and sanded, would be beautiful. Anyone ever heard of this stuff? Whataya think?
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gun material... bamboo?
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Here is a link to a thread on another forum .The gun is made from bamboo plywood .It came out pretty well.If you do a search there you will find 2 more phases in the building/testing of the gun.
http://www.spearboard.com/showthread.php?t=17609&highlight=bamboo
http://www.spearboard.com/showthread.php?t=17609&highlight=bamboo
thanks! I think thats pretty much what I needed to know. The flooring looks awesome, but is wicked hard too. I guess I'll glue up 3-4 stocks and see waht I can do.
This seems very interesting!
Please keep us posted on your project, I have never really built anything of bamboo. I guess only time I have it in my hands is when I use chopstcks!:t :martial
Ivar Nelson
Please keep us posted on your project, I have never really built anything of bamboo. I guess only time I have it in my hands is when I use chopstcks!:t :martial
Ivar Nelson
Both teak and bamboo are very hard because of the high levels of silica in the cell walls. What the salt-water resistance of bamboo might be, though, I haven't a clue. I'm encouraging your experiments and really want to see the reports when you get done.
I have been testing a piece of bamboo here in Hawaii for about 6 months. I have it attached to my 2# drop anchor. Why? One was to test the durability (banging against coral, rocks, lava, etc). the second, because I was told that bamboo has many air pockets within it and that at depth it may fail, it may not stay epoxied, etc. I've heard it all. So far, not a bit of warp, no crushing, no delamination, nothing!
For what it's worth, I used a piece of bamboo plywood scrap, used West sytems epoxy, and then even routered 2 edges to see how the woodworkability (is that a real word) would be and see if that would cause any change in the wood composition. Again, so far, I am impressed and plan on doing several gun samples (a hybrid, an open track, and an enclosed track). Again, the salt water testing has not caused any problems.
For what it's worth, I used a piece of bamboo plywood scrap, used West sytems epoxy, and then even routered 2 edges to see how the woodworkability (is that a real word) would be and see if that would cause any change in the wood composition. Again, so far, I am impressed and plan on doing several gun samples (a hybrid, an open track, and an enclosed track). Again, the salt water testing has not caused any problems.