Photos of bowl turned from bamboo strips
During my monthly rounds to the thrift stores I came across an
interesting kitchen cutting board -- made entirely from laminated bamboo strips in 3 layers. Price was $2, and with my senior discount I paid $1. The laminations were intriguing to me and I decided to see if I could turn a shallow bowl from it. Here is the result: http://home.comcast.net/~kvaughn65/bamboo_bowl.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~kvaughn65/laminations.jpg Bowl is 7 1/2" by 1 1/2" -- sanded to 600 grit with a single coat of microcrystalline wax. Top layer strips are 5/16" wide, middle layer strips are a little over 1/8" wide, and the bottom layer strips are 3/16" wide. Bamboo has a distinctive, but not unpleasant odor when you cut it. It is very hard and very abrasive -- this may be partly due to the glue used in the laminations. I found it easier to use a thick round nose scraper to turn the inside of the bowl -- this gave long thin shavings, but required frequent honing of the tools edge (which was not turned to a hook). Kind of fun, but I wouldn't want to work with bamboo very often. Ken Vaughn |
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