Bamboo/cane

[Brokennock]

I've mentioned in past posts that I often use bamboo or cane to make my powder measures as well as containers for pre-measured shot loads. I had not connected to photobucket until recently so could not show examples. The bamboo is nice because one end already has a stopper and is relatively cheap for the amount of gear I can make out of a few 6 to 8 foot pieces bought at a craft store. A few cheap corks will stop the other end for containers, and if cut at an angle the powder measures pour nicely with a little bit of chamfering with a tapered half round file and some steel wool. As you can see, I leave a bit of overhang when I cut the end with the node left for a bottom so I can drill through the side for a leather thong to hang the measure.







Thanks for looking.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

VERY nice!

 

[wattlebuster]

Lookin good :thumbsup: I use river cane that I cut myself for all of my measures. Its a tad lighter that antler

 

[coloradoclyde]

Beats the heck out of plastic tubes... :hatsoff:

 

[Brokennock]

Thanks all.

 

[FishDFly]

Nice workmanship.

 

[George]

Well done. Cane is handy for quite a few things. I have a ball bag with a cane spout and a section of larger cane as a holder for needles and thread.

Spence

 

[BillinOregon]

A ball bag with a cane spout. Great idea.

A few years back I made some crude buckshot by pouring hot lead into sections of river cane, which yield pencil-diameter lead "wire." Cut this into small pieces with a hatchet, then rolled between a rock and piece of steel plate. Result was not pretty, but I'd hate to be on the wrong end of a charge.

 

[FishDFly]

The end of the bamboo/cane, is the dark color burned/scorched and stained? I like the contrast in colors.

 

[FishDFly]

I can see some winter projects coming, I have a bunch of bamboo in the rafters of my barn.

 

[MSW]

very clever! I like it!

 

[omarick1948]

I guess we don't have the stuff growing here in Nebraska??? Wish we did!

Rick

 

[Rifleman1776]

I guess we don't have the stuff growing here in Nebraska??? Wish we did!

Rick

Go to a shop that sells fishing tackle and buy a cane pole.
Oh! Forgot. Ye don't have any water in Nebraska. Sorry.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Craft stores like hobby lobby or Michaels and home improvement stores like Lowes or Home depot often carry bamboo poles..as do garden centers.

 

[Brokennock]

I picked up the light brown with dark segment nodes at a local Michael's craft store years ago. The black stuff came pre dyed from another craft outlet but I forget which one.

 

[Scott_C]

Rick,

Menard's has some in their gardening areas, unstained too.

 

[Woods Dweller]

Many years ago I read this was how they made shot.

Get yourself a wire screen the size you want your shot to be. pouring hot lead through screen into a bucket of cold water. It will give you teardrop shape shot.
https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=JN.Zo3q3DJjERymEt3Gogs6pQ&pid=15.1&P=0&w=300&h=300

 

[BillinOregon]

Rick, are you sure you don't have river cane growing along the Missouri River? That's where mine came from. Traded some Oregon obsidian for it.

 

[Silky921]

Very cool idea. Sounds like a new fun project.

 

[trent/OH]

I see different colors on your corks. Is that for different shot sizes or amounts, or to differentiate powder from shot, or something else?