Where can you order boxes of vertical grain bamboo flooring? I want to see if I can make my own laminations.
ifloor.com
But you should see if there are any hardwood flooring places near you. Bamboo flooring is pretty cheap. I got a cheap box on craigslist one time because somebody had some left over.
What Sammy said. One box will last you a while. Close too 25-30 bows depending on how good your bandsaw setup is at resawing.
Shawn
If you're making your own lams, you only need a 36" length, you could probabyl get what you needed for a number of bows just by getting some scrap boards from a construction site etc.
Know anybody in building or construction? pieces like that would just go in a dumpster anyway ... my guess is they'll give em to you.
The verticle bamboo I buy is 76" long, eleminating a splice in the handle.
James that seems easier to do and makes for a neater and cleaner lines. But probably harder to cut on bandsaw.
I used a taper jig and a thickness planner to make bamboo lams from free samples HD was giving away. Turned out great. Mine were 36" not sure how I'd taper a one piece at 72". Making 72" parallels make sense but tapers would be tuff. My bandsaw was not up to the task so I used cheap blades on table saw and still got 4 lams per piece of flooring.