where to find bamboo

No idea who might stock it near Boise, but dags for "plyboo"...

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I saw a new addition of some bamboo boards at the Rockler store in Tinley Park, Illinois. About 3/4" thick and I think about 8' long by

Musta been some whopper of a bamboo tree! Was the center 8" missing?

Yep, haha. Talk about big bamboo - I read on Wikipedia that some varities could grow an entire meter per day and up to 100 feet tall.

The board actually looks like a particle board, except the "grain" is very straight and fine. I guess it's called "pressed bamboo." So the bamboo fibers are long and straight. The board felt a little bit like plastic to me. After I posted I was wondering how the material would take on a finish. Here is what it looked like:

Pieces of approximately that size have been showing up in supermarkets on the East Coast. They're sold as cutting boards in the cheese section.

J.

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