Natural Bamboo vs Actionboo

[elkhunter45]

Is there any performance advantage to either in an ASL glass laminated style bow?

[Crooked Stic]

I think the main reason the actionboo is so popular is consistancy in layups more than performance.

[kennym]

I’ve heard natural has the edge on performance but also heard the rind is where you get the performance so I bet not much diff once you make lams

[elkhunter45]

Thanks for the replies. I went with Actionboo.

[Tim Finley]

Actionboo was something John at Old Master Crafters came up with . It was white and had very thin narrow lamination  and it tended to split when you filled your air hose and made a big failure . The bamboo that we use now is a laminated bamboo with about 1/4 inch thick lams it works great and I think it is superior to regular bamboo slats I buy it in 4'x8' sheets . There is no more actionboo .

[Crooked Stic]

I think the reason we call it actionboo is comparing it to actionwood being laminated and used as edge grain cores
. And the bamboo being vertical laminated.

[elkhunter45]

The stuff I got is from Bingham's and they call it Actionboo. This is my first time to use any form of bamboo as a core wood. I have used Osage in my previous bows. This is my first attempt at a Hill style bow as well.

[bigbob2]

I haveused bamboo flooring exclusively for many years, and simply as a gut reflex as to natural versus actionwood, I am only talking about the two types of 'boo flooring but " believe' the "coffee' type is slightly superior to the natural one due to being heat treated or tempered in manufacture. I have no statistics to substantiate this but other bowyers here have felt the same, that the 'coffee' 'boo was slightly zippier in performance.Simply an observation without proof though.