SPLIT BAMBOO RODMAKING 155 



If your material is Tonkin cane, practically 

 the same rules laid down for Calcutta may be 

 applied to it, though Tonkin generally seems to 

 be free from worm holes. 



You will know how to bevel two sides of each 

 one of your strips, to make its section tri- 

 angular, with the apex exactly opposite the 

 center of the enamel base, and the angle formed 

 by the two sides to be 60 degrees, as illustrated 

 in Fig. 50, p. 162. 



There are " forty-'leven " ways to do the 

 rough beveling, and as many more methods 

 employed in finishing the strips. You can be- 

 gin to bevel the strips in the grooved edge of a 

 tongued-and-grooved board. Another way is 

 to nail a strip of wood near the edge of your 

 work bench, forming a right-angled rabbet. 

 Some rodmakers use a hardwood block with 

 rabbets cut in two corners. Still another plan 

 is to prepare two blocks like those illustrated 



Figure 47. 

 Blocks for Beveling Rod Sections. 



in Fig. 47, with the angle of the groove 60 

 degrees. 



