Thanks for the tip, Cal. I shall use that from now on. Do you have any stats about the amount of shrinkage culms go through if put in a dry place? I inserted...
Mark Mortimer
bambusero@...
Apr 2, 2001 2:52 am
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... Hello Mark, I recall someone talking about wrapping copper around bamboo and screwing it in to fasten it. I've done this on occasion with a variation. I...
Cal Hashimoto
bambooda@...
Apr 2, 2001 4:27 am
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I would like to inject another material to objects made of Bambu. This is rubber. We have access to rubber in several different stages while it is being...
Derick Calderon
entre16@...
Apr 2, 2001 2:30 pm
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Hello Derick, Olga and all, Educators are eager to find ways that bamboo can be used in classroom activities. We as craft people, who have a practical...
mark meckes
mjmeckes@...
Apr 2, 2001 6:39 pm
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I bought a load of 8cm diameter Phyllostachys viridis the other day. One was unusally heavy. Once in the workshop I realised it had water in it. I've had...
Mark Mortimer
bambusero@...
Apr 3, 2001 11:47 pm
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One method of pruning branches is to use a fine toothed coping saw or hand saw to cut almost all the way through at the node,and then the branch can be snapped...
mark meckes
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Apr 7, 2001 8:28 am
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Apr 7, 2001 8:32 am
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Apr 7, 2001 8:35 am
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Apr 7, 2001 8:38 am
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I tried at the URL below by sending an email, but I'm not sure anybody is home there. http://insiderweb.com/bamboo_tools.htm TIA, Tom...
tharlow@...
Apr 7, 2001 1:35 pm
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Mark: Generally I leave the full set of branches for bean poles, pea brush, etc. Tops and small thinnings are the best pea brush I have used. Are you pruning...
PermacultureNo1@...
Apr 7, 2001 3:16 pm
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Hi Dan, `Trimming' is possibly a better definition then `pruning' as that implies pruning live growth. I guess that's my landscape background coming to the...
mark meckes
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Apr 7, 2001 8:03 pm
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Apr 7, 2001 8:12 pm
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Hi Mark, When I was in Kyoto a couple of years ago I watched a harvest of Madake bamboo (P. bambusoides?) and after felling the culm the men started trimming...
Cal Hashimoto
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Apr 7, 2001 11:31 pm
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Hi Cal, I too have noticed that this `Sesame Seed'effect is best produced from culms that I have harvested from a grove, where the culm has been left in place...
mark meckes
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Apr 8, 2001 7:55 pm
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Apr 8, 2001 8:01 pm
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Apr 8, 2001 8:06 pm
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... Mark, Outstanding detail shots! What camera are you using? Macro lens? I harvest in the wild so it is not easy to experiment much in the groves. Since...
Cal Hashimoto
bambooda@...
Apr 8, 2001 11:50 pm
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Dear Cal, Angel and I have talked about this quite often and we reckon that the sesame seed effect can also be produced AFTER harvesting. I harvested a load...
Mark Mortimer
bambusero@...
Apr 9, 2001 1:48 am
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Hello Mark Mortimer/Cal, The 'Sesame Seed' effect can be produced to varying degrees by storing harvested poles in humid conditions, but I don't think that the...
mark meckes
mjmeckes@...
Apr 10, 2001 4:02 pm
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... Hi Mark, The description that I got of the topping technique came from a member of the Kyoto Bamboo Business Association. They are an organization of ...
Cal Hashimoto
bambooda@...
Apr 10, 2001 5:41 pm
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... The variety known in the East as ... Thanks for this valuable information! This past winter, an ice storm here in Austin, Texas broke off the tops of some...
mark meckes
mjmeckes@...
Apr 10, 2001 9:16 pm
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Hi all, I have a bit of a problem. I have been asked to supply a large amount of simple instruments, marachas, guido, and stomping sticks, to a teacher who...
klang@...
Apr 22, 2001 1:03 am
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Hi Kevin, The trouble with fresh bamboos is that they dont sound , aspecially in percution instruments, very well. At my workshop the children produce the...
ran lichtner
liyali@...
Apr 22, 2001 7:28 pm
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... Don't waste your immature bamboo before it is ripe. Maybe some of us bamboocrafters can help. What kind of quantity and dimensions is he seeking? What are...
Carole Malone
bamboo@...
Apr 23, 2001 4:04 am
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I don't know how the law reads, but my pieces of bamboo that I tried to bring in from Mexico were confiscated at the border. I was told that if it's live,...
Robert A. Schreiber
bschrei1@...
Apr 23, 2001 7:34 am
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Thanks Carole, Ran and Robert for your replies to my query. Carole, I have been harvesting Moso from a friend's patch that he wants to get rid of, so not only...
Kevin Lang
klang@...
Apr 23, 2001 8:21 am
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In a message dated 04/23/01 3:35:10 AM, bschrei1@... writes: << I don't know how the law reads, but my pieces of bamboo that I tried to bring in from...
PermacultureNo1@...
Apr 23, 2001 12:24 pm
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Dear Robert: This is very interesting because recent developments in international commerce allow for free trade. Derick Calderon Tel 502 3671197 Fax 502...
Derick Calderon
entre16@...
Apr 23, 2001 1:03 pm
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We all know live plants need permits and to be quarantined, but what about pieces of bamboo? Can they be sent in a box customs form just saying bamboo pieces -...
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