Originally Posted by engineeringatUI

Coming from calfee's website, The bamboo has been smoked and heat treated to prevent spliting and the frame is coated with a satin polyurethane to seal it up. Dose anyone think that their is more involed than just that (not looking for anyones trade secrets but, wondering if anyone thaught their was more to it than just that) I am still in the preliminary stages of this project and am still unshure how I will be treating the bamboo to alter its material properties