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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 00:40:42 -0400
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From: "Craig O'Donnell" <dadadata@friend.ly.net>
Subject: Re: Bamboo construction
*> 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].
Interesting.
*> The book that goes with this series is:
*>
*> Author: Underhill, Roy
*> Title: Woodwright's Apprentice: Twenty Favorite Projects from the
*> Woodwright's Shop
*> 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.
Probably. I'm not sure about bending a strip 180 degrees though. Perhaps
I'll try it on the "B" prototype. I can see where it could be done on the
frames, which extend from the gunwale to the cine and then chine to keel,
to chine, to gunwale. I'll try a frame that way.
Craig O'Donnell
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