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page 42Bamboo JournalThe best thing to do, in our opinion, is to keep them tied on a lat surface at least one day; this will givethe strips enough time to cool down and to harden without deformations after the thermal shockduring the tempering in the oven.Now you can test it: take a heat treated strip and a strip form the same culm that has not been subjectedto this procedure and apply the same lexure to both and you will see that something has deinitelychanged (you will also have dificulty in straightening some small imperfection in the strips).In conclusion, we do not want to afirm that our method is the only one or the best one, in fact the moreexperienced rodmakers will maybe contradict us but it certainly has given us excellent results.Italian Bamboo Rodmakers Association