PURPOSE: To obtain a bamboo plywood by combining a plate material made of a split material obtained by splitting a green bamboo into small pieces without occurrence of distortion or warpage.
CONSTITUTION: A green bamboo is cut to a predetermined length so that each cut part has a plurality of nodes. The cut green bamboo is peripherally splitted into a plurality of split materials. A large number of plate materials 24 each obtained by processing the split material into a plate are overlapped to form an intermediate plywood 34. A sheet 34A is formed by stripping the intermediate plywood 34 vertically to the overlapped surface thereof. A bamboo plywood 40 is obtained by a method in which a large number of sheets 34A are vertically laminated and bonded in three or four layers so as to cross each other with respect to the grain direction thereof.
ONO MASAMI
NIPPON KATAWAKU KOGYO KK