In skilled hands, bamboo has as much potential as any other non-traditional wood or material. Geometry is an issue to be overcome, as obviously any guitar parts will need to be pieced together, but again, with some ingenuity, a competent luthier would be able to exploit some of the more interesting properties of bamboo.
There are thousands of different bamboos, but one kind is known to be the strongest plant on planet Earth. Tonkin cane, the traditional material for flyrods, has a Modulus of Elasticity of 6.2 million PSI, which is about 15% stronger than the next few strongest species of tree, like Pernambuco, Wamara, Snakewood, etc, yet with a similar density of 70 pounds per cubic foot.
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