{"id":1563,"date":"2017-07-21T09:27:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T14:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2017-07-21T09:28:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T14:28:11","slug":"knobs-288-289-290-291-cali-fossilized-bamboo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/2017\/07\/21\/knobs-288-289-290-291-cali-fossilized-bamboo\/","title":{"rendered":"Knobs 288, 289, 290 &#038; 291, Cali \u201cFossilized\u201d Bamboo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1573\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/knobs-0288-0289-0290-0291-600.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1573\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1573\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/knobs-0288-0289-0290-0291-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"884\" srcset=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/knobs-0288-0289-0290-0291-600.jpg 600w, http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/knobs-0288-0289-0290-0291-600-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Knobs 288, 289, 290 &amp; 291<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These knobs were made from vertical grain Cali\u2122 \u201cFossilized\u201d Bamboo, product 759148 (blond or natural) and product 759147, 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 J-B Weld PlasticWeld epoxy, hoping to match the resin in the bamboo product.\u00a0 This seems to have worked better than ordinary epoxy, since none of these happened to split apart.<\/p>\n<p>Bamboo is not hardwood.\u00a0 It can crumble if hit the wrong way, splitting along the grain.<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0 These were finished with Minwax Polycrylic water-based acrylic finish.\u00a0 The average size is about 0.64\u201d tall x 0.8\u201d diameter.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2017 Don Baker dba android originals LC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These knobs were made from vertical grain Cali\u2122 \u201cFossilized\u201d Bamboo, product 759148 (blond or natural) and product 759147, heated to a caramel color.\u00a0 Bamboo is not wood, but grass.\u00a0 In this product, strands of bamboo are apparently melded together under &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/2017\/07\/21\/knobs-288-289-290-291-cali-fossilized-bamboo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[412,413,379,411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563"}],"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=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1575,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}