Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 18:27:41 -0800 (PST)
From: "H. Paul Jacobson" <hpj3@u.washington.edu>
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
Subject: Bamboo construction
In-Reply-To: <l03010d08b0769ce728bf@[205.216.99.27]>
Today's show of the Woodwrights Shop (PBS) featured bamboo construction.
He made a chair and a canister. The program number is 1704.
He mentioned:
Author: Hommel, Rudolf P.
Title: China at work; an illustrated record of the primitive industries
of China's masses, whose life is toil, and thus an account of
Chinese civilization, by Rudolf P. Hommel.
Pub. Info.: Cambridge, Mass., M.I.T. Press [1969, c1937].
Phy Descript: x, 366 p. illus. 26 cm.
The book that goes with this series is:
Author: Underhill, Roy
Title: Woodwright's Apprentice: Twenty Favorite Projects from the
Woodwright's Shop
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Year: 1996
ISBN/Price: 0-8078-4612-0 Trade Paper $17.95 (Ingram Price), $17.95
For the chair he used 2" pieces for the legs and the main cross pieces.
The latter were made in one length that wrapped all the way around the
chair. To do this he cut wide notches that left only a 1 1/2" flat piece
on one side. This strip was heated over an oil lamp, and then bent a full
90 degrees around the leg piece. That is he was able to notch and bend
the horizontal enough to wrap all the way around the leg piece. This
should work for ribs on a kayak.
He also made mortised joints. He had no problem drilling, and carving
adequate sized holes in larger pieces to take small ones. He did drill a
pilot hole before using the larger bits, to avoid splitting. And using a
couple of pilot holes and a knife he cut slots to take split bamboo slats.
It appeared that with these joints, and pins in selected places he was
able to construct a chair without any glued joints.
Paul