Bamboo Bicycle Frame!

Karl Nielsen (@woodbikenielsen and @kidcalifornia on Instagram) got with us on the construction of his custom bamboo bike frame. Using Peak Bamboo, carbon, various woods and a lot of patience and elbow grease, he put together a real beauty. We think you’ll agree;...

Bamboo Rodmaking for Beginners

In 1997 or so, Frank Armbruster of Colorado Bootstrap published a Free Report on the basics of how to build a bamboo fly rod. He advertised it in the classifieds of a popular national fishing rag for the price of one SASE and a couple of unused stamps. Our own Matt...

How to Make Bamboo Chopsticks

Chopsticks. Love bamboo & Asian cuisine? You can craft hexagonal bamboo chopsticks. For novice rodmakers, they represent a good way to practice setting up and using a planing form on something arguably less important (and intimidating) than a first set of rod...

We’re in The Planing Form

Peak Bamboo is in The Planing Form, Issue #161 October/September 2016. Read the article in PDF format here. Rodmakers, anglers, and restorationists, if you don’t already receive The Planing Form, it’s a great newsletter, full of useful tech articles, essays, supplier...