>Strand woven bamboo panels are available in a maximum thickness of 20 mm, otherwise they would become too heavy Does anyone know what this refers to? too heavy for what??
Maybe too heavy to support its own weight?
How is bamboo lumber made? (2016)
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Re: How is bamboo lumber made? (2016)
#42A general question: how does forestry avoid degrading the soil? If you keep removing the plants that grow, rather than allowing them to rot and return the nutrients they sucked up during their lifetime back the soil, do the trees steadily grow worse until it is no longer profitable and you have to go grow trees somewhere else?
With credit to the other posters here, who do give correct answers as to how forestry is less destructive to the soil than other crops,....
and assuming a clearcut/monoculture approach to tree farming (because the comp to foodcrop agriculture also ignores regernerative/permaculture techniques)
forestry is massively disruptive to the soil, because it obliterates the ecosystem/community which allows forests to produce so much biomass.
also, because the harvest cycle is measured in decades rather than years, the soil destruction also happens at a slower rate. Doesn't mean it isn't as destructive per harvest cycle, just that the cycle rate is slower.
Re: How is bamboo lumber made? (2016)
#43If you start with something that is natural and sustainable (for example, bamboo), and you add to it something that is neither (for example, glue), then you end up with something that is neither natural nor sustainable. Sorry.
Re: How is bamboo lumber made? (2016)
#44Has anyone worked with bamboo plywood? How does it compare to other plywoods? It doesn't appear (at least on the website linked) to be particularly cheap - a full sheet of 20mm bamboo plywood is almost €300! You could probably buy 3-5 sheets of 18mm baltic birch for that price - hardly the cheap material they're claiming. I bought a cheap chair made of bamboo once and it was very soft - it didn't give me the impressi…
Yeah I noticed the ads(?) at the bottom with the price. ~150 Euros for a square meter? Damn. It's probably cheaper in China/Asia, but not here lol
God, I remember working at one job where I saw a couple stacks of metal come in on a nice sheet of 4x8 woven-bamboo instead of a crappy wood pallet or plywood, I'm now kicking myself for not grabbing them when I had the chance.
Re: How is bamboo lumber made? (2016)
#45If you start with something that is natural and sustainable (for example, bamboo), and you add to it something that is neither (for example, glue), then you end up with something that is neither natural nor sustainable. Sorry.
It really bothers me when people try and pass off bamboo-based fabrics as being natural.
It's called rayon and it's about as synthetic as you can possibly get.
For those who are interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayon
Re: How is bamboo lumber made? (2016)
#46If you start with something that is natural and sustainable (for example, bamboo), and you add to it something that is neither (for example, glue), then you end up with something that is neither natural nor sustainable. Sorry.
Bamboo grows so much quicker that even with glue it might be more sustainable than using other woods.
Re: How is bamboo lumber made? (2016)
#47There is more glue than bamboo in the bamboo products, but thaks to the marketing department they are ECO, and friendly and yada yada... Just look at the proces to get decent thich board/beam.
Isn't this the same with e.g. MDF and other wood composites?
What glue is used, and how does it break down when exposed to the elements?
Re: How is bamboo lumber made? (2016)
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know why, but it took me years to internalize this... lol...
likewise, took me years to internalize that when you're losing weight, you're breathing and pissing most of it: you burn C+H+O compounds, and expel CO2 and H20.
Yeah I mean, there's barely any solid residue when you burn fuel in your car when you think about it. There's some (carbon), but most is converted to CO2 and H2O.
Re: How is bamboo lumber made? (2016)
#49If you start with something that is natural and sustainable (for example, bamboo), and you add to it something that is neither (for example, glue), then you end up with something that is neither natural nor sustainable. Sorry.
Bamboo grows so much quicker that even with glue it might be more sustainable than using other woods.
What happens to glue when you throw it away?
Re: How is bamboo lumber made? (2016)
#50Long time lurker here, first time poster. I got pulled into the rabbit hole of building guitars at home during the covid lockdowns. My first build used traditional "tonewoods" (mahogany, ebony, rosewood etc.) and while purchasing materials for my second build, I stumbled upon bamboo boards on a German wood retailed shop. Compared the properties to the wood I wanted to use for parts of it (mainly the core/neck and fre…
May I ask what you paid in the end for the bamboo you used? I went down the same rabbit hole some time ago and in the end went with oak as it was a lot more affordable (for my student budget back then).