bamboo briefcase

I have never used bamboo in a project ,I would guess you need to laminate it to a a substrate before building starts.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture ,maker, woodworking school, heirloomwoodshop.com

How thick is it? The Bamboo flooring I’ve seen is only about 5/8 of an inch thick and if you tried to resaw that it wouldn’t be thick enough for a case. The case I’ve been working on I used half inch stock for the sides, top and bottom. If you want to see what I’ve done so far check out my blogs about it:

http://lumberjocks.com/chriswright/blog/10290

and

http://lumberjocks.com/chriswright/blog/10355

-- "At its best, life is completely unpredictable." - Christopher Walken

I’ve got some bamboo flooring left over from Costco. The baked finish is almost impossible to sand off, and I certainly don’t want to dull my planer blades on it. Mine is almost too thin to resaw, but a little thick to use as is. Interesting dilemma. I have almost giving up just making a cutting board from it. It’s tough stuff. Oh, it’s also got grooves on the bottom side. I guess if you glued up the panels, you could use a belt sander on it.

-- You can't control the wind, but you can trim your sails

Thanks to all and to Chris: I’ll be following your project. I’m reminded, too, that in the 60’s the most elegant briefcases were very thin, much thinner than 4 or 5 inches. I always thought they would make elegant carrying cases for thin laptops and now netbooks.

-- Caulk and paint are a poor carpenter's best friends

5/8 would be thick enough for resaw. A briefcase should have about 1/4” thick on the sides at most

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