4 bamboo nails by zhou hongtao from usa

Bamboos are the fastest growing woody plants in the world and they are rapid renewable. Proper design of bamboo could help make a sustainable future for furniture industry and our planet. Below is a design taking advantage of hollow bamboo structure.

Four bamboo nails NAIL four segments of a bamboo pole with a sheet of bamboo plywood…….a coffee table.

Natural bamboo structure-knot, provides the thickest and strongest structure to hold the four nails working with four loop screws and four imbedded T-Nuts. Large cover surface of the bamboo walls makes it a strong joint.

Setup procedures are: 1 screw the loop screw into the table top, 2 cover the loop with a bamboo pole, 3 insert a nail through the holes in the pole and the loop, 4 rotate the whole structure and tight it up.