Gayle Bair on fri 19 oct 07
Does anyone have experience making teapot handles
with bamboo. Specifically I need info on bending it without
cracking or splitting it.
I've used a torch and am now trying a heat gun. I may just be
too impatient as I am experiencing sharp bends and cracking.
I haven't found much on line so far.
A friend of mine gave me 2 beautiful pieces of black bamboo.
It's recently cut... about a week the thickest section is about 1/3 inch.
Gayle Bair
Bainbridge Island, WA
Tucson, AZ
http://claybair.com
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Donna Kat on mon 22 oct 07
Soaking in water is my guess - it works on cane. Though now that I think
of it what makes bamboo good is that it seems impervious to water yet what
I have in the yards is not - maybe it has to still be green to work with.
Ok, now that I have completely demonstrated my ignorance I'm going to wish
you luck and hope to see the right answer because I have a great deal of
bamboo that I am any day going to get to work on.
Donna
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:49:09 -0700, Gayle Bair
wrote:
>Does anyone have experience making teapot handles
>with bamboo. Specifically I need info on bending it without
>cracking or splitting it.
>I've used a torch and am now trying a heat gun. I may just be
>too impatient as I am experiencing sharp bends and cracking.
>I haven't found much on line so far.
>A friend of mine gave me 2 beautiful pieces of black bamboo.
>It's recently cut... about a week the thickest section is about 1/3 inch.
>Gayle Bair
>Bainbridge Island, WA
>Tucson, AZ
>http://claybair.com
>
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Randall Moody on mon 22 oct 07
Everything that I have read says to bend it while it is still a little green
using a heat gun. I haven't read anything about using water but it is worth
a try.
Chris Leake on mon 22 oct 07
Check out the American Bamboo Society website then let the rest of us know if you get a good answer.
Chris Leake
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Lee Love on wed 24 oct 07
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:40:29 -0500, Donna Kat wrote:
>On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:49:09 -0700, Gayle Bair
>wrote:
>
>>Does anyone have experience making teapot handles
>>with bamboo. Specifically I need info on bending it without
>>cracking or splitting it.
Bamboo root is used for bamboo teapot handles.
My booth mate at Mashiko Tokiichi uses a torch to bend bamboo
root into a tea pot handle. Maybe boiliing would work similarly, if
you don't want the "antiqued" finish a torch leaves.
--
Lee in Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
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Gayle Bair on wed 24 oct 07
Hi Lee,
Thanks... I did note that a lot of the handles are made with the root.
Unfortunately all I have are the culms.
I've seen online demos of the process I pulled off this site :
http://www.bamboocraft.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-757.html
The on in Mexico was fascinating and wished I knew Spanish.
Thanks
Gayle Bair
Bainbridge Island, WA
Tucson, AZ
www.claybair.com
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Subject: bending bamboo
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:40:29 -0500, Donna Kat wrote:
>On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:49:09 -0700, Gayle Bair
>wrote:
>
>>Does anyone have experience making teapot handles
>>with bamboo. Specifically I need info on bending it without
>>cracking or splitting it.
Bamboo root is used for bamboo teapot handles.
My booth mate at Mashiko Tokiichi uses a torch to bend bamboo
root into a tea pot handle. Maybe boiliing would work similarly, if
you don't want the "antiqued" finish a torch leaves.
--
Lee in Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant
facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For
a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and
falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
--JFK
http://mashikopots.blogspot.com/
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pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on wed 24 oct 07
Hi Gayle, all...
I believe Bamboo may be conveniently bent on any hot Mandril.
A length of Iron or Steel Pipe or similar, held fast in a Vice, and Heated,
would likely work fine.
One would have the Mandril hot enough to just scortch the Bamboo, if one
lingered in how one is bending it.
Ideally, such a Mandril should be very smooth or even polished...and one
draws the Work over it as one is bending it so it is never allowed to be
still or to scortch.
Phil
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gayle Bair"
> Hi Lee,
> Thanks... I did note that a lot of the handles are made with the root.
> Unfortunately all I have are the culms.
> I've seen online demos of the process I pulled off this site :
> http://www.bamboocraft.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-757.html
> The on in Mexico was fascinating and wished I knew Spanish.
> Thanks
> Gayle Bair
> Bainbridge Island, WA
> Tucson, AZ
> www.claybair.com
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