How to Make a Bamboo Shelf

 

Bamboo furniture is a newfangled kind of environmentally friendly furniture. Bamboo shelves, bamboo shoe racks, and bamboo chairs are regular bamboo furniture. The production process of bamboo products is very complex, generally including these steps: bamboo processing, skeleton production, surface processing, and component assembly. During the production of bamboo furniture, you should pay attention to the selection of materials, keeping clean, the selection of adhesives, cutting methods, and other problems. In this article, let's take a look at the production process of bamboo furniture.

 

Bamboo Furniture Production Process 

 

Bamboo Processing

• Bamboo piece of interception

 

Firstly, select bamboo material which is more than 5 years old. Secondly, according to the size of bamboo furniture requirements, cut the original bamboo into bamboo segments of appropriate length. When cutting bamboo furniture, we should focus on the different structures, different parts, different lengths, and the number of segments.

 

• Bamboo deoiling

 

Bamboo contains a certain amount of water, sugar, starch, etc., which are collectively called "bamboo oil". The bamboo section is heated at a high temperature to make the "oil" flow out, which is called deoiling. There are two ways to remove oil, one is the fire roasting method, and the other is the cooking method.

 

• Bamboo piece of correction

 

In the process of growth, bamboo culms are affected by various external factors and tend to bend. The bent bamboo must be corrected before it is suitable for making furniture. You need to warm the dry curved part of the bamboo-section over the fire. When the stem skin oozes bamboo oil, the bamboo-section gradually loses its elasticity. Then put one end of the bamboo-section into the bending rod groove, slowly adjust the bending degree, and cool it with cold water or a damp cloth.

 

Bamboo Piece of Polishing

 

The skin of bamboo segments can be polished to enhance glossiness. The method is to put the processed bamboo segments in water and polish the bamboo segments with 2 parts fine sand and 1 part rice husk. The freshly cut bamboo culms are polished with this method first and then deoiled after drying. The skin is particularly smooth and beautiful. Bamboo culm epidermis black scale can be directly sanded. 

 

• Bamboo piece of bleaching

 

The epidermis of the bamboo section is yellowish green, after deoiling and drying, it gradually turns pale yellow, and becomes yellowish brown after a long time. If bamboo furniture or bamboo utensils need to be colored, the bamboo must be bleached, otherwise, it is not conducive to coloring and painting.

 

• Bamboo piece dyeing

 

We dye bamboo sections with appropriate colors or make markings, and then make furniture simple and elegant, and more beautiful. Bamboo coloring is often used with basic dyes. The method is to choose after bleaching and skin non-destructive bamboo section, put in 2% caustic soda or sodium carbonate solution, boil 3-5 minutes after removal, and then put in the alkaline dye solution, boil for half an hour or so can be dyed with the required color.

 

Skeleton Production

• The bending of a bamboo segment of the skeleton

 

Skeleton bending means bending bamboo sections into the skeleton of bamboo furniture, commonly used methods include the fire bending method, groove bending method, saw triangle notch bending method, and so on.

 

• Joint of a skeleton

 

Bamboo segments are bent and then joined with other round bamboo or bamboo pieces to form the real bamboo furniture skeleton. There are a lot of joint methods, commonly used rod, T, cross, L, arch, and connected, embedded, entangled, etc. Skeleton joint requires the use of log core, bamboo nails, nails, cement, and so on to achieve good results. 

 

Surface processing

 

The surface layer of bamboo furniture is very important in use and decoration. Therefore, it must be carefully processed to meet the design requirements. The surface layer of bamboo furniture is generally made of bamboo slices, bamboo rows, rattan, and bamboo strips. It can also be made of wood, plywood, fiberboard, plastic board, sofa cushion, etc.

 

Component assembly

 

According to the specified technical requirements, several processed bamboo furniture parts are connected to synthetic parts called bamboo furniture parts assembly. It includes component size fixing, punching, pin, and shape trimming process.

 

 

What should we pay attention to when making bamboo furniture? 

 

1. Pay attention to the selection

Processing bamboo furniture is the most important step is to choose raw materials, bamboo furniture quality and raw materials are closely related. When selecting materials, we must choose high-quality bamboo, which is generally 4-5 years old. Bamboo should not only be thick but also hard to facilitate the later process.

2. Take care to keep clean

When the bamboo material and other materials are combined, we should pay attention to keeping clean, to ensure that there are no impurities, no greasy, and other sundry things. Composite fabric must be thoroughly smooth, and can not have concave and convex, so as not to lead to post-production trouble.

 

3. Pay attention to the adhesive selection

Bamboo materials can be combined with different materials under the use of suitable adhesives. Please carefully choose adhesives and learn more about the varieties, properties, and application methods of adhesives from adhesives dealers. The compound should be evenly coated with adhesive, to ensure that the adhesive coating surface covers the entire compound surface, and can not leave white.

 

4. Pay attention to the cutting method

 

Because of the straight fiber characteristics of bamboo, when cutting and drilling bamboo materials, we must choose the electric saw with fast speed, a dense and thin sawtooth, and an electric drill with fast speed. We cannot use the saw with a big sawtooth and nail directly on the bamboo furniture board.

 

 

Conclusion

Before making bamboo shelves, you need to complete the above steps. So you can build the frame of the bamboo shelf according to the design concept. Zhuzhi Bamboo is a professional factory that manufactures a wide range of bamboo products. If you are interested in our products, get a quote now!