Great life - but I don't understand about the rods that weren't up to snuff - I'm getting interested in bamboo, and can't picture how you could do all the pre-gluing steps on a rod and not realize something was wrong. Did the sanding go too deep? Or was it something unforeseen. I would hate to go to all that trouble and have something that wasn't usable. I know how a planing form works, but what does a beveller do?