Comments on: May 16, 2007 http://www.redecho.org/2007/05/16/142/ my life, reflected and filtered Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:21:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: norm http://www.redecho.org/2007/05/16/142/#comment-190 Thu, 17 May 2007 15:37:47 +0000 http://www.redecho.org/2007/05/16/142/#comment-190 Bamboo is stunningly resilient and flexible That said, the little garden stakes have usually been treated in such a way that they are about the most brittle bamboo you can get You may want to see if you can find some larger stuff for the "trunk" and then some smaller diameters for "branches" The other trick you might try is splitting the bamboo like they do to make a fishing rod. A google search for "make bamboo fishing rod" reveales several sites. These are also quite flexible and light but it's not trivial either. The American Bamboo Society may have something useful as well. About half way down they have several "Consruction" links Bamboo is stunningly resilient and flexible
That said, the little garden stakes have usually been treated in such a way that they are about the most brittle bamboo you can get
You may want to see if you can find some larger stuff for the “trunk” and then some smaller diameters for “branches”

The other trick you might try is splitting the bamboo like they do to make a fishing rod. A google search for “make bamboo fishing rod” reveales several sites.
These are also quite flexible and light but it’s not trivial either.

The American Bamboo Society may have something useful as well.
About half way down they have several “Consruction” links

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