$325 per sheet bamboo plywood...Huh?

[ncguy77]

Searched far and wide and the cheapest I can get 2 sheets of 3/4 Bamboo Plywood is $650.
Wurth no longer stocks anywhere and their pricing and shipping is the "We really don't want to sell it" range.
The price above is from CaliBamboo and I even hear some grumblings about it.
Jackson International was also a no deal.

Anybody have any last suggestions before I throw in the towel?

 

[jbrphil]

not many people buy bamboo plywood.

 

[jbrphil]

or buy veneer then glue on regular plywood then you have bamboo plywood. :gar-Bi

 

[tryingtokeepmyfingers]

I swear a place in asheville stocked it but I do not remember the place now


edit

I think this was the place

http://www.builditnaturally.com/Sheetmaterials.html

edit again

here is a thread talking about it before

http://www.ncwoodworker.net/forums/showthread.php?t=41463

 

[95vette]

Hello, Have you tried World Panel Products in Windsor, NC 252-794-9944 they show it on their website but no prices. They are part of a company out of Florida that supply products to the boat builders on the Outer Banks. Jim

 

[NCGrimbo]

or buy veneer then glue on regular plywood then you have bamboo plywood. :gar-Bi

+1.

 

[srhardwoods]

Atlantic ply carries it, $247 a sheet, or $80 for a 4x8 sheet of veneer. I would veneer my own at that cost

 

[jbrphil]

There! 80 dollars for sheet of veneer then add 80 dollars of birch plywood at Lowes then glue on it...160 dollars! way cheap! unless you dont care about plywood then 35 dollars for plywood plus 80 dollars for veneer which comes to 115 dollars! way cheap than 247 or 325!

 

[zapdafish]

One of the cool things tho that I've seen with bamboo ply is how the edges look. Unlike ply where I try and edgeband it, bamboo ply looks really good

 

[Cbozz]

You could also try Common Ground in Durham.

http://www.commongroundgreen.com/category/flooring-and-finishes/plywood-panels/

Probably still expensive, but worth a shot.

 

[ncguy77]

Thanks for the leads and I'm pursuing them.

I'm mainly interested in the 3/4" 3-ply instead of the veneer because I plan to highlight the eye-candy edges like this....



BTW, in searching for a photo of the above I stumbled upon this guy doing a dining room table and benches that highlight the bamboo edging.
Unfortunately he had the advantage of a waterjet and hydraulic press.
Kinda like Arts & Crafts meets Greene&Greene meets Bamboo.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Bamboo-Dining-Table-and-Benches/?ALLSTEPS

 

[jbrphil]

oh I got it...that is expensive...no other way around! It does look good! Good luck!

 

[ncguy77]

Reference to Atlantic Ply......closest Atlantic Ply I can find is here http://www.atlanticplywood.com/location.asp in Richmond? Is that who you are referring to?

 

[unclejohn]

World Panel Products has 3/4 Bamboo in stock. $230.00 per sheet. Phone # is 1 252 794 9944

 

[zapdafish]

that's pretty bad when the price you are looking at makes $230 seem cheap

 

[ncguy77]

World Panel Products has 3/4 Bamboo in stock. $230.00 per sheet. Phone # is 1 252 794 9944

I've looked 3 times at that site (along with a specific google crawl thru it) and I still cannot see a page mentioning 3/4 bamboo plywood.

So I'm going to go old school and pick up the phone. If it's $230 without a shipping surcharge that will definitely be the "low cost" source.

I was just about ready to move to another solution but my wife countered that even this high cost solution is a fraction of what we would have paid for standalone furniture of anything close in comparable quality. Well OhhhhhhKay, bamboo it is.

Thanks for the help.

The Durham store has some versions in stock(not the one I want) but they add a hefty shipping surcharge on those stock sheets as well as anything they order..

 

[CrealBilly]

Bambo is a grass... that price seems way to high for grass - doesn't it?

 

[buildintechie]

Bambo is a grass... that price seems way to high for grass - doesn't it?

Its because its a "pretty" grass. No other reason....bamboo grows so fast it can't be on an endangered list.

 

[ncguy77]

Somebody is making LOTS of profit and it also carries the stupid "green" cachet.
Oh well, when the project gets done hopefully I'll post some pics about why I think this was a good match for the space.

 

[Cbozz]

The trouble is the good, hard bamboo only grows in SE Asia. And there's a fair amount of precise work in splitting the tubes into strands and arranging them into sheets. So when you count in the embodied energy of producing and shipping the stuff across an ocean, it's not exactly as green as most would like.

The markup is pretty high as well, but it's a similar percentage to other high end sheetgoods as I understand it.

If enough people wanted some I bet you could get a decent deal if you called the distributor (Miami, I think) and tried to order a whole pressload.