Last week Daniel and I had a great time but we forgot to take some pictures. These are from the week before. In this picture Daniel is using a heat gun to straighten his strips and get them ready to put them through the beveler to give them an initial 60degree shape.
Here Daniel is flattening the nodes with a file so that they lay flat. This can be a time consuming process because you need to be careful not to take too much because you can ruin the strip and have to start over.
Daniel is now taking off the inner pith of the the bamboo so it lays flat on the "belly" side of the bamboo.
All of this process took about 3 hours for both of us to get through all of the strips for two rods. Last week we beveled all of the strips in the beveler and then bound them together and put them in a special oven to bake @ 375 degrees for about 12-14 minutes. That night we worked from 8 to midnight. We got Daniel all beveled and baked but I only got about half of my strips beveled. I spent about two and a half hours finishing the beveling and binding and cleaning. There are many ways to make a mess and bamboo rod building hits most of those. Next we will be starting in on final planing and getting pretty close to completing a section of rod.
Here Daniel is flattening the nodes with a file so that they lay flat. This can be a time consuming process because you need to be careful not to take too much because you can ruin the strip and have to start over.
Daniel is now taking off the inner pith of the the bamboo so it lays flat on the "belly" side of the bamboo.
All of this process took about 3 hours for both of us to get through all of the strips for two rods. Last week we beveled all of the strips in the beveler and then bound them together and put them in a special oven to bake @ 375 degrees for about 12-14 minutes. That night we worked from 8 to midnight. We got Daniel all beveled and baked but I only got about half of my strips beveled. I spent about two and a half hours finishing the beveling and binding and cleaning. There are many ways to make a mess and bamboo rod building hits most of those. Next we will be starting in on final planing and getting pretty close to completing a section of rod.
