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Offline akbowman

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Bamboo Stains
« on: April 30, 2009, 12:00:04 pm »
I am planning to make a bamboo backed hickory bow and am curious if anyone has any good ideas for stains or cools stuff you can do to color the bamboo. I have made a couple bbh in the past and just left the bamboo natural color which i really like, but i was wanting to try something a little different. I have seen posts on here in the past with some really cool colored bamboo backing, but cant find em. Any ideas or techniques would be appriciated.
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Offline Gordon

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Re: Bamboo Stains
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2009, 02:01:48 pm »
Bamboo takes alcohol based stains really well. I use leather dye.
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Offline woodsrunner

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Re: Bamboo Stains
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2009, 03:33:43 pm »
I will echo leather dye. It comes in a variety of colors and is easy to find. Go to American Leather on line they carry a large selection of colors and types. Good luck
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Offline akbowman

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Re: Bamboo Stains
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2009, 05:44:47 pm »
there was a post on here maybe a year ago or so that had a bamboo backing, think it might of been a build-along, but the bow was looking awsome then all of a sudden in the next picture the bamboo was a florescent green or chartreuse, and i thought the builder had lost his mind but then he did something else to it and it ended up being a beautiful emerald green color with dark streaks in it. Does anyone remember this post? or who the builder was?
 
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Offline Cromm

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Re: Bamboo Stains
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2009, 07:05:04 pm »
No but I would love to know how it was done......
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Offline Easternarcher

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Re: Bamboo Stains
« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2009, 09:08:39 pm »
I remember seeing that bow. and yes the green looked really cool. but I can't remember who posted it. Sorry
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Offline Dano

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Re: Bamboo Stains
« Reply #6 on: April 30, 2009, 09:43:28 pm »
It was prolly Joe Don Jones of Genisis Bows, he does outstanding work. He can make bamboo look like fiddleback maple.
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Re: Bamboo Stains
« Reply #7 on: April 30, 2009, 11:44:44 pm »
It also may have been from James (Robustus) Parker with Huntworthy Productions.

From his website

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