If you have experience of any kind (buy, make, etc.) with bamboo plywood for slab cabined doors and drawerfronts, please comment.
Fine Homebuilding has shown work done using bamboo.
If you have experience of any kind (buy, make, etc.) with bamboo plywood for slab cabined doors and drawerfronts, please comment.
Fine Homebuilding has shown work done using bamboo.
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I like bamboo, but as with ANY "trendy" building material, there is always the risk that it will date a house in ten years...like avocado appliances, poop brown woodwork, or bullnose drywall corners.
my house was build in 1895 and it had bullnose corners in the plaster? Does that date my house?
I always wanted (well, since they came out with them a couple years ago) to make a roll top desk using one of those bamboo "rugs" as the tambour--thought that would look good. One of many undone projects (at least I never started this one!--still have a router table I have never finished, a gun stock for my trapdoor Springfield .45-70, some clock parts I was going to use to put a functioning clock into a painting, a Damaskus steel knife blade I'm in process of making a handle for, etc.).
We sublet space from a shop that uses quite a bit of bamboo ply, pricey.
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I've done 6 bamboo kitchens and one countertop out of it. Used both Plyboo and Terragren (sp?). The Terragren is more uniform and smaller cross banding pieces with fewer voids and flatter. Both require very sharp carbide for cutting but the upside is they finish beautifully (I use Campbells Magnamax precat laquer). First kitchen I did with it is 6 years old now and still looks great - you can see it on the Berkeley Mills website. Always gets lots of compliments on the exposed edges.
Well you cant just come on here on your first day and tell us about the cabinets that you built and not show us any pictures! or at least a link to the ones that you mentioned.
Oh, welcome
Doug
I tried getting Plyboo for some cabinets about three years ago and the folks who sell Plyboo distribute out of San Fransico. A sheet of 3/4 would have cost $600. Needless to say we did not go with Plyboo. Still hoping for a chance
Bruce