Making bamboo skewers

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Location: Olympia, WA, USA

posted 7 years ago

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We have three large stands of bamboo on our property and I would like to make some skewers. For the purpose of sticking them in corks and making plant labels.

Google is failing me and only giving me stuff about bamboo skewers that you can buy.

I have not done anything with hand tools and wouldn't know where to start!

Thanks for any help offered!

Olympia, WA Zone 8

William Bronson

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I searched for whittling bamboo chopsticks,because they are pretty close to skewers.
This video shows promise, but skip ahead to 1:40 to skip the cheesy intro.
https://youtu.be/hluOONvinLY

This is a video on making bamboo baskets from grove to completion .
https://youtu.be/z0IcPxCvIcA

I think you will be able to extrapolate bamboo skewer making from sine of these techniques.

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Margaret Townsend

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Location: Olympia, WA, USA

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Thanks.

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bamboo skewer and corks for plant labels

Olympia, WA Zone 8

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