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Around here it's typical to find groves of
Phyllostachys Aurea and Pseudosasa Japonica. I've
mainly used P. Aurea -- which I'm using on the kayak -- but
Japonica seems like a nice bamboo for sail battens on small
sized sails.
Bamboo is commercially available in strip form, as tongue
and groove hardwood flooring, and in basketweave 4x8-foot
veneer panels. As I find out more about the commercial
stuff I'll be publishing info.
A fast update upon commercial sources: they're out there,
but I'm reluctant to recommend anything because it has been
almost impossible to get meaningful quantities of samples.
I'd hoped to be able to make up some boat odds and ends
(floorboards, hatch covers) and give them a straightforward
use test, but so far, well ... so I suggest you take a look
at my bamboo-as-materials listing on the American Bamboo
Society web page. Includes several long bibliographies:
ABS.
More about bamboo, below.
NAWANGK AMBU (the Bamboo
Raft).
A river raft from Sarawak:
Visit the Tray Boat
of Tai Wan, and the Basket Boat of Indochina.
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The Scientific Americans
1978-85.
No Bamboo. Part of The Other.
•Click
here•
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here•
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here•
not exactly bamboo, but a broadcast
of music from indonesia, where there is a lot of
it:
gongcast
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