bamboo paint color? - Tiki Carving

P pariartspaul Member Martiniland, California Joined: Dec 20, 2003 Posts: 159	P pariartspaul Posted posted on Sat, Sep 3, 2005 8:01 AM Aloha alpha50 - This bamboo stuff is really fun. It looks like you did a good job on your project but I can barely see what's happening with the teeny pictures! The bondo job in the first picture looks beautiful I think. I think I mentioned in a former post that I built a shade structure in the back about a year and a half or so ago, and I used steel poles sunk in concrete to make it, then did the bondo/bamboo treatment. Well, I have this trumpet vine and a potato vine growing up and over it and they are as big as trees now - they look beautiful. Then I have some nice big clumping bamboo here and there and a special clumping variety of giant Chinese moso bamboo on one side of the shade structure and it also is doing great this year. That giant moso bamboo will make poles 6" in diameter believe it or not - and this year it's just made some poles maybe 20 feet high and about 3 inches in diameter. I put it in about two years ago from a five gallon pot and it's growing great. I got it from a special bamboo nursery up in Sebastapol, Ca called 'Bamboo Sourcery'. You can see there website at http://www.bamboosourcery.com A real nice site for good general bamboo information. So the yard is coming our real nice so far and everyone is loving it. Haven't got to building the lava pond yet. I'm thinking of naming the yard "The Bamboo Grotto" and making a nice sign for it. The real bamboo and the fake bamboo are blending in so well that everyone things the structure is made of the real stuff - until they are told! There you have it.

Aloha alpha50 -
This bamboo stuff is really fun. It looks like you did a good job on your project but I can barely see what's happening with the teeny pictures! The bondo job in the first picture looks beautiful I think.

I think I mentioned in a former post that I built a shade structure in the back about a year and a half or so ago, and I used steel poles sunk in concrete to make it, then did the bondo/bamboo treatment. Well, I have this trumpet vine and a potato vine growing up and over it and they are as big as trees now - they look beautiful. Then I have some nice big clumping bamboo here and there and a special clumping variety of giant Chinese moso bamboo on one side of the shade structure and it also is doing great this year. That giant moso bamboo will make poles 6" in diameter believe it or not - and this year it's just made some poles maybe 20 feet high and about 3 inches in diameter. I put it in about two years ago from a five gallon pot and it's growing great. I got it from a special bamboo nursery up in Sebastapol, Ca called 'Bamboo Sourcery'. You can see there website at http://www.bamboosourcery.com A real nice site for good general bamboo information.

So the yard is coming our real nice so far and everyone is loving it. Haven't got to building the lava pond yet. I'm thinking of naming the yard "The Bamboo Grotto" and making a nice sign for it. The real bamboo and the fake bamboo are blending in so well that everyone things the structure is made of the real stuff - until they are told! There you have it.

Post #184080 by pariartspaul on Sat, Sep 3, 2005 8:01 AM