Thread: joining bamboo

G'day.

I reckon there was an item in a recent woodwork mag on using Bamboo sliced up to make panels but I can't find it.

My magazines are not kept in any particular order in any particular place so I might find it over the next week.

I didn't pay a lot of attention to it but I'm sure it talked about gluing it to make panels....

I'll keep looking...

Thanks Cliff

i was searching the web and came across some bamboo furniture. this is joint i would like to explore making, here...

another one..

I'd say the biggest problem you are going to have there is that the bamboo is not a fixed diameter. You're going to have to address every joint individually and by hand.

The first pic shows the rail butting into the post and the rail has been shaped to the profile of the post. How it's actually joined is anybody's guess. You'd could probably do it with a floating tenon shaped to fit inside the rail and run through into the post. However there's no long grain to glue to so you'd probably need a block inside the post to receive the other end of the tenon.

Those end-caps look interesting. You'd have to turn each one up to suit the size of the bamboo it was going on. I guess if you were making a lot of them you could make a stack in different sizes and use the nearest one in each case. Anything you make with bamboo is going to be rustic anyway.

G'day.

Looking at the pic's I'd say that there must be some sort of solid reinforcement inside the hollow cane.
The bamboo/cane furniture I've seen is usually tacked in place with small nails & then lashed with split cane. The split cane is soaked in water to make it soft to work it & then it dries hard.
Go for a stroll through a few shops that sell cane furniture & have a closer look at how it's done there.

yup,

i also believe that certainly there are some pieces of wood block behind those joints.

Any idea how they combine it?

the second pic showed to have two screws. wonder what is behind it.... :confused:

Can anyone help so that i could process the bamboo to some real useful stuff

There has to be some sneaky stuff going on there somewhere.