Present day shakuhachi are fabricated by removing all traces of the joints from the inside of the bamboo to produce a relatively smooth bore, and then coating the bore with layers of urushi-ji (a kind of workable plaster medium containing natural lacquer) to finely tune the bore.
現行の尺八の管の内部は、管の内側に残った節を削り取り、漆の地（じ）を塗り重ねることで管の内径を精密に調整する。