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Old 06-19-2019, 08:31 AM
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It's not balsa wood...it's bamboo, and Yamaha make/made a model out of bamboo wood...or they used to anyway, not sure if they still do.

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Bamboo being sort of the ultimate renewable resource, it is hardly surprising for folks to find additional uses for it. It does not have to be a nuisance. Let the fun begin.
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Pretty sure that's a laminate though. It's probably just a veneer.
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Bamboo guitars? I'm not going to panda to such nonsense.
Hahahaha, NICE!
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Just wondering why there aren't more made from bamboo wood, and what the positives and negatives might be?
Isn't bamboo one of the softest plant materials around? I say "plant materials" because as others have correctly pointed out, bamboo is not really wood. One thing that sets monocots such as bamboo (which is indeed a grass) apart from dicots (the vast majority of trees are dicots) is that monocots don't have secondary growth. In other words, they can't grow "sideways".

A (dicot) tree grows its stem and limbs by growing in three dimensions, essentially by becoming thicker. Monocots can't do that, they only grow in length. This is why you will never see a lily tree or use reeds for wood carving projects. And when you look at a cross section of a palm tree (which isn't a tree, but, like bamboo, more closely related to grasses), you'll notice that it doesn't have growth rings, but instead consists of one giant mass of thin fibers clustered together. This is how monocots achieve thickness when they grow.

Same with bamboo -- you'll never find grain (= evidence of growth rings) in bamboo.
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Isn't bamboo one of the softest plant materials around?
It's pretty hard, actually. It is a common material from which to make flooring and cutting boards. My sister has bamboo floors: they haven't held up as well as advertised.

http://www.bamboo-flooring-facts.com..._hardness.html

I'm not sure how well it bends and whether or not the bamboo guitar is bamboo or just bamboo-covered plywood.
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There is at least one banjo maker that uses bamboo for banjo rims (among other options). Not sure of it's sonic properties though.
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I remember that Yamaha - I think there was about as much glue as there was bamboo used in its construction.
Yea, the guitar was a novelty to be sure but lacked tone. The top looked like a bowling lane; it was made up of 2” strips of bamboo making it look like a cheap laminate floor.
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There is at least one banjo maker that uses bamboo for banjo rims (among other options). Not sure of it's sonic properties though.
Does it matter? For a banjo? [emoji16]
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Isn't bamboo one of the softest plant materials around? I say "plant materials" because as others have correctly pointed out, bamboo is not really wood. One thing that sets monocots such as bamboo (which is indeed a grass) apart from dicots (the vast majority of trees are dicots) is that monocots don't have secondary growth. In other words, they can't grow "sideways".

A (dicot) tree grows its stem and limbs by growing in three dimensions, essentially by becoming thicker. Monocots can't do that, they only grow in length. This is why you will never see a lily tree or use reeds for wood carving projects. And when you look at a cross section of a palm tree (which isn't a tree, but, like bamboo, more closely related to grasses), you'll notice that it doesn't have growth rings, but instead consists of one giant mass of thin fibers clustered together. This is how monocots achieve thickness when they grow.

Same with bamboo -- you'll never find grain (= evidence of growth rings) in bamboo.
I have seen bamboo 8" in dimeter, and anything under that - it must grow three dimensionally. When used as flooring, it is the hardest commonly available in the big box stores such as HD & Lowe's.
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Bamboo isn't wood. It is grass. It just grows pretty big.
When I was in college I played varsity tennis with a bamboo tennis racket. A Bancroft Super Winner. It was stiffer than any of the metal rackets at that time.

I don't see why a guitar neck couldn't be constructed of bamboo.
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Here you go. Kinda looks like a guitar.
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I think the word bamboozle was coined by the first purchaser of a bamboo guitar.
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