Bambooboo

Note to self: next time wear gloves when stripping bamboo. It's bloody sharp. Bamboo is basically a type of giant grass, and if you've ever had to walk through lalang/cogon/razorgrass you know how mean that can be...

I got all Robin Hood and decided to try to make a bow because my parents' house has a big stand of bamboo behind. See instructions at this guy's blog.

ARRRRRRRRRRGH he used green bamboo to cut the lashings from. No wonder it was so hard when I cut mine from dried staves.

So my thumb, index, and middle fingers are all covered now in shallow papercut-like lacerations. This is the genius of HSH: long on ideas, short on common sense =P