This site will knock your socks off !!! No socks?...place your feet firmly on the ground! http://www.Versteegde.nl ...
Mark Meckes
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Aug 1, 2001 6:12 pm
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The following artwork from Papua New Guinea (circa,early 60's) was burnt onto the bamboo using split sticks from the heartwood of a palm tree. The black...
Mark Meckes
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Aug 1, 2001 8:12 pm
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Dear Mark & Folks: This is indeed a site worth looking at. I only wish I could get the pictures to be even larger, lol. Better yet, I wish I could see some...
Thebzplace@...
Aug 2, 2001 2:31 am
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Description : Tools: Band Saw - Bench Top Model Craftsman 1/3HP - 11inch Throat 3" thickness cutting capacity ...
Mark Meckes
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Aug 2, 2001 5:06 pm
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Joyce, Thanks for the great sample of bamboo shoot paper !! We'll add it to the smorgasbord of goodies in the Traveling Bamboocraft Exhibition. It's sure to...
Mark Meckes
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Aug 3, 2001 8:33 pm
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It's a Humdinger !!! Forty (odd) years ago, a child, I was in my elements, living in the interior highlands of Papua New Guinea, amongest the last people of a ...
Mark Meckes
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Aug 3, 2001 10:42 pm
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Looks great..!! Was wondering approximately what percentage of bamboo pulp to wood pulp you used... Also how does the paper compare to all bamboo or all wood...
sno
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Aug 4, 2001 12:29 am
553
Pat, your flute is very easy to play. It speaks, it sings, sometimes soothing, uplifting, sometimes deep, introspective As one one who does not regularly play...
Mark Meckes
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Aug 4, 2001 6:36 am
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Hi Jennifer, Here's a photo of the sample pieces we're sending you, to make toys etc for your birds to play with. Let us know how they like them and if there...
Mark Meckes
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Aug 4, 2001 6:36 pm
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Dear Jennifer & Folks: I must have missed something about all this, lol. I have parrots and use Bamboo all the time! My birds especially love to climb ON...
Thebzplace@...
Aug 4, 2001 7:50 pm
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Making Jaw Harps Deep into winter, with nowhere to go, The earth was silenced by a thick blanket of snow. Stirring, yearning, for something to do, in the...
Mark Meckes
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Aug 4, 2001 11:46 pm
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Jaw Harp: String-Driven/ Thumb-Dinging Description : Jaw Harp(2)S-D/T-D: Deep Throat - Made from Phyllostachys nigra `Henon' -Grown in Georgia,USA ...
Mark Meckes
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Aug 5, 2001 10:09 pm
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Pat, What else do you do with Bamboo for your birds? What kind of birds do you have? I have a Moluccan, Greenwing, Buffon, Amazon, and two tiels. Jennifer...
Jennifer Copper
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Aug 6, 2001 12:37 am
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Description : Bamboo Jaw Harp(3)String-Driven/Thumb-Dinging Made from Phyllostachys nuda -Grown near Easton Pennsylvania, USA This jaw harp has special...
Mark Meckes
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Aug 6, 2001 7:08 am
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Wow Pat you are quite the collector! Do you belong to a bird rescue organization? I hear so many horror stories about birds. That is why I am not a breeder. I...
Jennifer Copper
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Aug 6, 2001 5:41 pm
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Dear Jennifer: We ARE the rescue organization, lol. All but 6 of our birds are rescues. And the geese & our new chicken (rooster) are also rescues, lol. I...
Thebzplace@...
Aug 6, 2001 10:04 pm
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Description: Bamboo for Birds Kit - Mostly Phyllostachys aurea (grown in Austin Texas, USA) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboocrafts/files/Mvc-171f.jpg ...
Mark Meckes
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Aug 7, 2001 12:46 am
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Description : Culm Sheath Decoupage - Artwork by Pierre http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboocrafts/files/Mvc-172f.jpg ************************* Description :...
Mark Meckes
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Aug 7, 2001 5:54 pm
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Description : Bamboo Pens - an assortment made from Phyllostachys species http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboocrafts/files/Mvc-177f.jpg ...
Mark Meckes
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Aug 8, 2001 9:58 am
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After making a bamboo quill pen, the next step is to see how it writes. These photos represent the first experimentations with this pen. It's all a part of...
Mark Meckes
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Aug 9, 2001 6:27 am
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Wind Chime Rhodo : Rhododendron branch and Phyllostachys flexuosa http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboocrafts/files/Mvc-182f.jpg After a few years of weathering...
Mark Meckes
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Aug 10, 2001 6:18 am
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Hi all, I have just had a rather harrowing experience over the last few days. I have a small shop where I sell Bamboo furniture that we import from the...
Kevin Lang
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Aug 10, 2001 8:18 am
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Dear Kevin: I was JUST reading about this in my Bamboo book yesterday! When I get home from work later today I'll see if I can copy some of that information...
Thebzplace@...
Aug 10, 2001 10:11 am
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Hi Mark: I'm sending some of our latest news items below for this list. The TRIP announcement is especially relevant as TRIP includes a number of bamboo ...
PermacultureNo1@...
Aug 10, 2001 10:42 am
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This bamboo is splitting it's sides open with laughter !!! Description : Aged Moso Splitting open (Phyllostachys heterocylca cv.pubescens ...
Mark Meckes
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Aug 10, 2001 1:16 pm
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Mark: I have read with EXTREME INTEREST this article and commentaries of yours regarding Splitting. Nobody that >>I know of has ever analyzed seriously the...
Derick Calderon
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Aug 10, 2001 2:25 pm
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Kevin I just came back from a trip in Europe and I found that people accept cracking or splitting in Bambu in fact you cannot get furniture with splits from...
Derick Calderon
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Aug 10, 2001 2:31 pm
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Hello Kevin and Mark I read your letter just when I was coming in to write mark about the same problem I was fast curing some of th "Henon" I had harvested in...
Terry Crumpler
texaswasp@...
Aug 10, 2001 2:32 pm
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Thanks for all of the encouragement guys. I have been working with boo for over 15 years , but that has all been material that has been harvested while still...
Kevin Lang
klang@...
Aug 10, 2001 8:08 pm
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i planted bamboo 3 yrs. ago it is only a foot high what did i doo wrong ,how long does it take to get any size.planted shoot that was about 2 or 3 ft. high....