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Originally Posted by Andrew

... I was referring to the hollow wood core of the handle as bamboo...

Sorry for my misinterpreting, Andrew .
Very hard (for me) to improve pictures. Looking again with a naked eye, there is too much texture in its profila to be wood. Also the hole is not concentric as that done with a drill. I will take for certain your inclination that it is bamboo.

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