Gluing your bamboo

EXCERPTS CHAPTER VI

VARIOUS TYPES OF GLUE

You can use three types of glue for bamboo rod building: polyurethane, epoxy and resorcinol formaldehyde. These glues can be found in wholesalers for the building and woodworking trade.

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THE BINDING MACHINE

Over the past years I have made some modifications to the Garrison machine as I was not entirely satisfied with it.

So I will draw your attention to the assembly of an easy to build device for mechanical binding that when well adjusted, allows you to obtain perfectly straight elements right from the cementing process.

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DESCRIPTION AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE MACHINE

HOW TO assemble
6.1 The assembling and binding machine

The frame of the machine is made from brass, stainless steel or aluminum sheet (dimensions 30 X 25 cm) which when folded will form the right angle section on which the various elements are fastened.

1. Cradles with adjustment for spacing
2. Binding tension discs
3. Cord guide
4.Mounting spindle for binding- cord spool.
5.Driving spool anchor slot for drive cable
6.Driving spool with handle.
7.Small removable rod.
8.Cable return guide.
9.Cable guide pulley.

The sketch and the photos 6.1 to 6.4 illustrate how it works. (The size illustrated can be varied depending on the diameter of your pulleys.)

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binding machine

APPLYING THE GLUE AND BINDING

Putting the strips in place and machine process

In the chapter on the strip gouging, the strips were arranged side by side, the bark side being maintained on the board by adhesive tape.

For the gluing, you will put the strips in the same arrangement on adhesive tape. You must be careful to place them well aligned in order to have them in the right place when you assemble them.

6.5 Gluing the strips

Once the strips are arranged flat, the gluing can begin. It is performed with a tooth brush (photo 6.5). You should protect your hands with surgical rubber gloves.

Apply the glue, beginning from the element butt as the latter is introduced into in the binding machine first.

In order to ensure that the strips are maintained side by side, do not glue the two centimetres of the thickest part first introduced in the machine under which there is a piece of adhesive tape.

Once glue covered, the elements are easier to position.

6.8 Second machine clockwise pass

Once the glue is applied, you must hold the adhesive tapes and assemble the strips by beginning from the butt side.

Garrison used to begin from the head. I personally never ventured to do this with a tip.

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