Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

Writing my winter question as Vancouver receives a rare dusting of snow...    Wondering about inlaid binding...  (if I'm soon brave enough to attempt one...)

Care to speculate (or know) if PowerPro (the green 50 lb crazy-thin stuff) work any better or worse for the inner binding?  (It's just something I have on hand.)

I notice it's common to coat the inner binding with either epoxy or CA glue before wrapping the outer cosmetic binding.  These are both some interesting chemicals that give off heat and fumes and interact in complex ways with what they touch... I'm assuming this reduces the wound material's flexibility a lot so is it possible the real binding could be weakened (e.g. turn "too solid" or become brittle) because of these compounds?

Similarly, would a simple surface binding coated with urushi become brittle and less likely to move with any bamboo expansion/contraction over time?

Thanks!  And may all your cracks close up tight...

-Darren.

dstone wrote:

Writing my winter question as Vancouver receives a rare dusting of snow...    Wondering about inlaid binding...  (if I'm soon brave enough to attempt one...)

Care to speculate (or know) if PowerPro (the green 50 lb crazy-thin stuff) work any better or worse for the inner binding?  (It's just something I have on hand.)

I notice it's common to coat the inner binding with either epoxy or CA glue before wrapping the outer cosmetic binding.  These are both some interesting chemicals that give off heat and fumes and interact in complex ways with what they touch... I'm assuming this reduces the wound material's flexibility a lot so is it possible the real binding could be weakened (e.g. turn "too solid" or become brittle) because of these compounds?

Similarly, would a simple surface binding coated with urushi become brittle and less likely to move with any bamboo expansion/contraction over time?

Thanks!  And may all your cracks close up tight...

-Darren.

I know alot of folks use Power Pro and it's great line, I prefer Ande line http://www.andemonofilament.com so as an alternative check it out. It runs about 7.00 for 250 yards and it's a very strong line. I have been using 50lb and 60lb and I think I'm going to stick with 60lb. I have never used epoxy on the inner bindings, I simply use a few dabs of super glue on the knot where the line crosses and that seems to work fine but I'm open to new ideas. I guess I've always thought similiar that the binding may become to brittle and not expand with the bamboo.