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I am planning on making a small fountain very similar to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1qMrKCu … re=related
I was wondering if anybody knew the proper way to treat bamboo to prevent it from rotting - as it will be waterlogged. Or if anybody has made a fountain and has any tips.
Thanks!
Kaz
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Kaz wrote:
I am planning on making a small fountain very similar to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1qMrKCu … re=related
I was wondering if anybody knew the proper way to treat bamboo to prevent it from rotting - as it will be waterlogged. Or if anybody has made a fountain and has any tips.
Thanks!
Kaz
Try these links (Googled 'making a Japanes deer scarer'. It's easy, aughtta try it sometime):
http://www.squidoo.com/bamboo-fountain
There are at least ten others on the Google results page: http://www.google.com/search?q=making+a … =firefox-a
It's also called a 'Shishi-Odoshi'. This info will probably answer your question, but one thing about such a fountain: the uprights must be mounted
very solidly for it to work properly—solid as a cement footing.
If it were mine, I wouldn't treat the above ground parts with anything; weathering is part of its 'thang'.
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Thats true. A japanese garden is all about being totally natural and wabi sabi.
Last edited by purehappiness (2009-12-22 06:44:03)
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I am down with weathering, it's the rot->mess up pump combo I am worried about. Believe it or not, I googled this very issue and could not find anything about treating the bamboo. Maybe it holds up fine on its own.
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Kaz wrote:
I am down with weathering, it's the rot->mess up pump combo I am worried about. Believe it or not, I googled this very issue and could not find anything about treating the bamboo. Maybe it holds up fine on its own.
It holds up quite well, especially if you tile the bottom of the hole each goes into, and backfill the holes with small-medium river rock, to secure it.
As in one of the diagrams--instructables, I think it was--for making Shishi-Odoshi. I didn't look real hard, but I didn't find anything either.
Most of the stuff you'd use to really protect the bamboo would not be much on the Green end of the spectrum...
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