Bamboo for Boat building

[Bill Baillie]

Does anyone know anything about using Bamboo in boat construction? I know that it is stiff and light, it grows fast and when used as house hold flooring is very hard and wear resistant but I do not know about rot resistance, compatibility with glues and epoxy or workability.
Has anyone had any experience with it? If so, are supplies readily available?

[Bill Baillie]

Does anyone know anything about using Bamboo in boat construction? I know that it is stiff and light, it grows fast and when used as house hold flooring is very hard and wear resistant but I do not know about rot resistance, compatibility with glues and epoxy or workability.
Has anyone had any experience with it? If so, are supplies readily available?

[Bill Baillie]

Does anyone know anything about using Bamboo in boat construction? I know that it is stiff and light, it grows fast and when used as house hold flooring is very hard and wear resistant but I do not know about rot resistance, compatibility with glues and epoxy or workability.
Has anyone had any experience with it? If so, are supplies readily available?

[Donn]

I've used bamboo as garden stakes for decades, and some of them are decades old. They spend 3/4 of the year in the ground, and don't rot.

Another common outdoor (and marine) use is as the staff of some net-fishing marker floats. I've found several washed up on the Atlantic beaches...an 8' bamboo staff, stuck through and tied to a styrofoam block.

You can buy sheetstock of bamboo up to about 3/4" thick, but it's all sawn and glued strips. There's a bunch of info on the web about it.

This site (http://www.inbar.int/publication/txt/INBAR_Working_Paper_No48.htm) is a comparison of mechanical properties of two different types of laminated bamboo panels.

This one (http://basicallybamboo.com/creations.phtml) has some pretty interesting furniture built with bamboo flooring and laminated panels.

[Donn]

I've used bamboo as garden stakes for decades, and some of them are decades old. They spend 3/4 of the year in the ground, and don't rot.

Another common outdoor (and marine) use is as the staff of some net-fishing marker floats. I've found several washed up on the Atlantic beaches...an 8' bamboo staff, stuck through and tied to a styrofoam block.

You can buy sheetstock of bamboo up to about 3/4" thick, but it's all sawn and glued strips. There's a bunch of info on the web about it.

This site (http://www.inbar.int/publication/txt/INBAR_Working_Paper_No48.htm) is a comparison of mechanical properties of two different types of laminated bamboo panels.

This one (http://basicallybamboo.com/creations.phtml) has some pretty interesting furniture built with bamboo flooring and laminated panels.

[Donn]

I've used bamboo as garden stakes for decades, and some of them are decades old. They spend 3/4 of the year in the ground, and don't rot.

Another common outdoor (and marine) use is as the staff of some net-fishing marker floats. I've found several washed up on the Atlantic beaches...an 8' bamboo staff, stuck through and tied to a styrofoam block.

You can buy sheetstock of bamboo up to about 3/4" thick, but it's all sawn and glued strips. There's a bunch of info on the web about it.

This site (http://www.inbar.int/publication/txt/INBAR_Working_Paper_No48.htm) is a comparison of mechanical properties of two different types of laminated bamboo panels.

This one (http://basicallybamboo.com/creations.phtml) has some pretty interesting furniture built with bamboo flooring and laminated panels.

[Bill Dodson]

Craig O'Donnell's Cheap Pages (http://www2.friend.ly.net/~dadadata/n_the_other.html) has info on bamboo.

[Bill Dodson]

Craig O'Donnell's Cheap Pages (http://www2.friend.ly.net/~dadadata/n_the_other.html) has info on bamboo.

[Bill Dodson]

Craig O'Donnell's Cheap Pages (http://www2.friend.ly.net/~dadadata/n_the_other.html) has info on bamboo.