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On to page Four!!
July 2004
I am making a bench/shoe box for our front entrance hall. We have decided on a very simple design, that will go well in the entrance, and will function as a shoe box and seat to sit on while putting on your shoes.
When I was talking to my lovely wife about it she suggested that for the panel parts of the door and sides I use bamboo, to make it look a bit different, and to keep a bit of a Japanese theme.
Well we had some nice dry bamboo sitting around here from last summer, we used it as a kind of washing trough for noodles at a BBQ party we had....
OK that sounds odd, a pic is worth a thousand words so.....
With water running down the bamboo trough, the hot noodles are dropped into the top. Everyone catches the now washed and cooled noodles as they come by.
Waiting for the noodles
That is Mizuki having some noodles!!
The noodles are then put into a cup, and in the cup is some sauce, then you eat the nice cool noodles!
You see we went to a friends farm on the outskirts of Tokyo for a BBQ party, being summer one of the foods we eat is "Somen" this is a very thin noodle that only takes about 3 minutes to cook, you then wash it with cold water and eat the noodles cold. It is VERY tasty!!
The friend who has the farm suggested that we wash the noodles in a bamboo trough. We cut down a good sized bamboo tree, split it in two and set it up. It worked really well and everyone enjoyed it.
My wife wanted to keep the bamboo, so we brought it home.
Now I have to figure a way to cut this bamboo up and make it usable for the decoration on the sides of the shoes box.
I have to admit, I did a bit of head scratching here. Splitting the bamboo was not a problem, I have an old planer blade that I made into a dowel forming tool that I used when making some of the training sticks we used in Aikido.
This is one of the pieces that I started from.
The
trick is to keep the tool perpendicular to the work piece.
You only need to strike the tool at the very beginning of the cut.
One of the split off pieces read for some more work.
I next used my razor saw to cut the ridges down as much as posible.
Much better, now on to the power tools!
I
used the power planner to flatten the backs of these pieces,
it worked really well (and makes a heck of a mess!!!)
OK now the piece has a flat back.
Here is a shot of the clamp that I made to hold the piece in place while I was
shooting the edged of it.
Clamped in place ready to shoot the edge.
laying the plane on it's side and planning a nice straight edge on the strip of
bamboo was easy once I figured it out!!
A nice straight edge!
a little scrubbing and it is done
I think it turned out well!