Ron, I've purchased from your site however I do find the "Bamboo Society" comments inaccurate and a bit offensive.

As for a "reasonable" priced "well made" blank, What's a reasonable priced blank if it takes 20 - 30 hours to build the blank to the point of wrapping and finishing?

I refer to it as the "wally world syndrome". We complain about the jobs going off shore, we don't like the amount of product being imported from China, we want well made product, we support American labor, yet we go to walmart because it's cheap... (I've been guilty).

Vote with your hard earned dollars, you have a choice.