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[Kaboom1]

So basically you are taking 2 slats which have been planed and joined and glueing them together and then planed to a taper in layman terms. It sounds a hell of a lot easier than other ways of building bamboo blanks and the end result was beautiful.

Scott

There are NO 45 degree angles. You take 2 strips for each section, flatten the nodes, cut to length and then plane each piece to 1/2 the final dimension of the rod. Planing is done on the inside of the strip to preserve all the power fibers on the outside of the strip. On the rod above, the power fibers go to the inside edge of each strip. All the pith was removed in the planing process. I was able to choose a culm of bamboo with really deep power fibers so all the pith was removed.

Glue them together, then plane the other sides to the final dimension. It seems easy, but you are measuring after almost each stroke with the plane since you have no planing form to limit the renoval of the cane. It is very difficult to keep each strip flat and level with no form to guide you.

In reality, I think that a standard 6 sided rod will be eaiser to do. We will be finding out soon enough!

Here is a little reading on a PMQ...

http://www.rodbuildingforum.com/inde...howtopic=15417

http://www.bamboorodmaking.com/html/pmq.html

Brad