Patent ID: 8389056

Claim:
A method of forming a decorative bamboo product from an engineered bamboo product, comprising: cutting raw bamboo into strands; then drying the bamboo strands; then combining the dried bamboo strands with an adhesive, each of the strands including relatively wide front and rear faces and relatively narrow side edges; then aligning the strands such that the relatively wide faces of the strands are against one another; then forming the dried bamboo and adhesive mixture into at least one solid block, sheet, or billet under pressure and/or heat, each having two opposed side surfaces formed by the relatively narrow side edges of the aligned strands and two opposed side surfaces formed by the relatively wide faces of the aligned strands; and then slicing the at least one block, sheet or billet along the opposed side surfaces formed by the relatively wide faces of the aligned strands into slices to provide each slice with opposed side surfaces formed by the relatively narrow edges of the aligned strands, whereby the slices placed individually or in combination with one another provide a decorative bamboo product.