When final planing, I am noticing I consistently get little "strings" of bamboo on the edges that abut the enamel flat.  When they come off (have to be pulled off) they leave a glue gap.  What am I doing wrong that is creating these little bamboo slivers?  (Louis DeVos)

I don't think you are really doing anything wrong, I think you are just have some bamboo that has "strings".

I planed out some bamboo that was that way today. When I get some bamboo that does that, I find that I can scrape all the way down to the metal with a razor blade and you will see the "strings" disappear. As you scrape you can see the "strings" come off and a fuzzy edge, keep scraping till you have a clean even line flush with the top of the forms. I had to do all the strips from this culm that way for this rod, it had a lot of "strings". The rest that culm will be set aside to be used another time if I have to use it. Got it glued up,no strings, no glue lines.

I think we are talking about the same thing.  (Tony Spezio)

As you've discovered, you don't want to ever pull those little fuzzies off.  You can usually nip them off with a sharp razor blade at the point where they are still attached to the strip.  (Neil Savage)

Do you split or saw the strips?  It could be that the "grain" of the fibers are at a slight angle to the axis of the strip.  Do you get these slivers on both sides of the enamel?  Are the ends facing you or facing away?  Take a close look at how the fibers are oriented.  (Ron Larsen)

My take on why this happens is that if your strip is not formed to 60 degrees, and therefore sits in the groove  with a certain degree of movement, the edge tends to roll away from the plane, leaving the edge untrimmed.

If you keep your blades really sharp, and if you check your angles with a gauge you should pretty well get away from the problem.  It  can also help if you hold the strip with your fingers firmly in the groove when trying to remove the feathering.   (Peter McKean)