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...
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Cal Hashimoto
bambooda@...
Apr 2, 2001 4:27 am
... 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...
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Derick Calderon
entre16@...
Apr 2, 2001 2:30 pm
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...
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mark meckes
mjmeckes@...
Apr 2, 2001 6:39 pm
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...
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Mark Mortimer
bambusero@...
Apr 3, 2001 11:47 pm
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...
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mark meckes
mjmeckes@...
Apr 7, 2001 8:28 am
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...
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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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tharlow@...
Apr 7, 2001 1:35 pm
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...
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PermacultureNo1@...
Apr 7, 2001 3:16 pm
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...
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mark meckes
mjmeckes@...
Apr 7, 2001 8:03 pm
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...
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Apr 7, 2001 8:12 pm
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Cal Hashimoto
bambooda@...
Apr 7, 2001 11:31 pm
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...
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mark meckes
mjmeckes@...
Apr 8, 2001 7:55 pm
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...
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Apr 8, 2001 8:01 pm
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Apr 8, 2001 8:06 pm
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Cal Hashimoto
bambooda@...
Apr 8, 2001 11:50 pm
... 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...
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Mark Mortimer
bambusero@...
Apr 9, 2001 1:48 am
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...
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mark meckes
mjmeckes@...
Apr 10, 2001 4:02 pm
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...
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Cal Hashimoto
bambooda@...
Apr 10, 2001 5:41 pm
... 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 ...
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mark meckes
mjmeckes@...
Apr 10, 2001 9:16 pm
... 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...
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klang@...
Apr 22, 2001 1:03 am
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...
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ran lichtner
liyali@...
Apr 22, 2001 7:28 pm
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...
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Carole Malone
bamboo@...
Apr 23, 2001 4:04 am
... 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...
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Robert A. Schreiber
bschrei1@...
Apr 23, 2001 7:34 am
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,...
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Kevin Lang
klang@...
Apr 23, 2001 8:21 am
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...
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PermacultureNo1@...
Apr 23, 2001 12:24 pm
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...
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Derick Calderon
entre16@...
Apr 23, 2001 1:03 pm
Dear Robert: This is very interesting because recent developments in international commerce allow for free trade. Derick Calderon Tel 502 3671197 Fax 502...
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Carole Malone
bamboo@...
Apr 23, 2001 3:56 pm
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 -...
