If you scrape them together, they will work fine. Never got a splinter from one yet and they grip the food better. Have peeled splinters from the bamboo ones, but I still like those better than the lacquered or plastic ones.those arent bamboo . I wish I had a pr of bamboo. they wouldnt splinter. Thats hard wood. I think those must of been pine.
Nerd Alert!-
Technically bamboo is not wood at all. It is a grass.