ref add above
"Bamboo is hard, too hard on knife edges."
My board with end grain up bamboo works just fine for me.
My blades are out of good steel, many of my own making and heat treated at approx 59 Rc.
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
Albert Einstein
At Khe Sanh a sign read "For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the protected never knew".
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