{"id":1510,"date":"2017-03-25T19:47:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T00:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2017-03-25T19:47:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T00:47:56","slug":"knobs-281-285-286-287-cali-fossilized-bamboo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/2017\/03\/25\/knobs-281-285-286-287-cali-fossilized-bamboo\/","title":{"rendered":"Knobs 281, 285, 286 & 287, Cali \u201cFossilized\u201d Bamboo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Knobs 281, 285, 286 & 287<\/p>\n

These knobs were made from Cali\u2122 \u201cFossilized\u201d Bamboo, product 759153 (blond or natural) and product 759154, heated to a caramel color.\u00a0 Bamboo is not wood, but grass.\u00a0 In this product, strands of bamboo are apparently melded together under heat and pressure with plastic resin.\u00a0 As I recall, Cali claims a Janka number of about 5000, very hard.\u00a0 The material has no give, and the 6mm shaft hole must be cut with a 6.1mm drill, or it would not slide onto a pot shaft.\u00a0 I sanded the hard clear finish off the tops of two flooring samples, obtained from Lowes, a local home and lumber center.\u00a0 Then glued the two together with ordinary 5 minute 2-part epoxy, so as to fill any voids, since it was very hard to sand, even on a belt sander.<\/p>\n

In two of these knobs, the epoxy failed, splitting apart, either on the application of pressure from the point of the lathe tailpiece, of or with the pressure of the #5-40 set screw applied to hold a 6mm drill rod shaft set in the lathe.\u00a0 This can be repaired by cutting off the epoxy, sanding the mating surfaces of the two halves on a flat block sander, and clamping with superglue around a 6mm shaft coated with paste wax.\u00a0 The 6mm shaft hole had to be redrilled with a 6.1mm drill, and the slight mismatch imperfections turned off on the lathe.<\/p>\n

Because the material already has hard plastic embedded in it, and polishes to a fair gloss, only Kiwi neutral shoe polish was used to finish it.\u00a0 With handling and time, this dulls to a pleasing satin finish, and can be repolished if needed.\u00a0 Considering how epoxy can fail to fully adhere, other finishes might require some experimentation.\u00a0 The side grain can have a little iridescence, but note how the end grain of the bamboo looks like micro leopard spots.\u00a0 The contrasting grains make a convenient rotation pointer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Knobs 281, 285, 286 & 287 These knobs were made from Cali\u2122 \u201cFossilized\u201d Bamboo, product 759153 (blond or natural) and product 759154, heated to a caramel color.\u00a0 Bamboo is not wood, but grass.\u00a0 In this product, strands of bamboo are … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,37],"tags":[382,379,380,381,383,384,386,385],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}