How To: Make Your Own Bamboo Table

Did you ever wonder how to make your own bamboo table? Yes? Sure? Well, this must be your lucky day because here and now I'm going to show you how you can easily build the one and only Iñaki's Original Bamboo Table!!!

  1. Run to your neighbourhood's closest rain forest with a big knife and grab some juicy bamboo. Beware of the mosquitoes, spiders and snakes that hang around since they can make your working day a bit less fun!
  2. Back at home saw the bamboo stick into pieces and chop them off using the same Rambo-style knife. Whenever it's possible use globes to avoid the nasty little pieces that get stuck under your nails.
  3. Cut, saw and polish other pieces of wood to make the frame of the table. They don't need to be perfect but at least make sure that you count a minimum of four legs (a recent study showed that 3-leg tables fail to hold an average-sized watermelon 67% of the times).
  4. Assemble the previously arranged items with a handful of nails and one hammer. If everything went fine up to step #3 it should be easy. If things get overcomplicated, use the POWERRRRR!!!
  5. Convince your friends to come over for an exciting IKEA night, give them some bamboo and let them do the easy stuff (cutting and varnishing)! Just joking. Thank you Linda, Marieke, Marion, Elsa and the rest of the girls for your help, you know I couldn't have done it without you!
  6. Enjoy the 1-week lifetime table that you just built, take some pictures and write about it on your blog!

That's all, I hope it's clear. Enjoy yourselves and remember working with bamboo is always fun!


(Lease usando la voz del barbas de Bricomania) Buenas familia, hoy vamos a construir una mesa de bambu de manera rapida y sencilla. Tan solo necesitais un punado de herramientas basicas y un poco de imaginacion. Venga amigos, vamos a por ello!

  1. Baja hasta el bosque tropical del barrio y corta unas cuantas canas de bambu. Ten cuidado con los mosquitos, aranas y serpientes ya que pueden hacer tu dia de diversion un poco menos divertido!
  2. De vuelta en el taller usa tu cuchillo/guadana Black&Decker 2000 para trocear las canas de bambu al tamano aproximado.
  3. Tala, sierra y pule otros listones para fabricar el marco de nuestra mesa de bambu. Recuerda que no tienen porque se perfectos pero asegurate de disponer un minimo de cuatro patas (estudios recientes evidencian que la mesas de 3 patas no son capaces de sostener una sandia de tamano medio en mas del 67% de las ocasiones!).
  4. Ensambla los anteriores elementos. Si todo ha ido sobre ruedas hasta el paso numero 3 esta tarea debe resultar sencilla. Si esto no fuera asi haz uso abusivo de la FUERZA!!!
  5. Convence a tus amigos o a los mas pequenos de la casa para que te ayuden con las tareas mas sencillas. Pideles que corten listones para el tablero y que los barnicen pero ten cuidado de que no mueran intoxicados (los accidentes ocurren). A que es siempre divertido trabajar en familia!?
  6. Por ultimo disfruta de tu mesa de bambu durante la semana que durara hasta que alguien la rompa. Recuerda sacar bien de fotos y escribir sobre ello a tus amigos pues de que sirve constuir una mesa si no puedes chulear sobre ello?!

Pues nada mas familia, nos vemos en el proximo BRICOMANIA Especial Bosque Tropical. A pasar buena semana... agur!

3 comments:

Hani said...
August 17, 2009 at 6:08 PM

Hi Inaki,

What on earth are you doing all the way at the other side of the globe? I didn't know you had the spirit of an Indiana Jones inside you. And at the same time you have a nicely maintained blog with recent Flickr slideshows... now that's impressive.

I enjoyed reading your instructions for building a bamboo table. I will try to complete step 1 this weekend. Not sure where the "nearest rain forest" to Delft is, but I'm sure It will be easy to get there using Google Maps.

Take care Inaki and watch out for those pesky snakes and spiders.

Iñaki Merino Albaina said...
August 18, 2009 at 6:54 AM

Hi Hani, good to hear from you!
Yep, I'm still on my way to nowhere. You're right about posting, it's as challenging and time consuming as fighting a tribe of cannibals.
Good luck with the table and remember that you can find bamboo at the Delftse Hout!

Groetjes,

Inaki

Anonymous said...
August 24, 2009 at 3:19 AM

peazo de mesa!!
mu wapa!
1 abrazo Injaki!

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