Difficult to damage a bamboo - that requires something more like a direct hit with a SCUD missile :-))

What you describe sounds feasible but you might want to post the same question on the Bamboo forum, which gets way more traffic than this one does.

I use a sawzall for all my bamboo divisions. You can see my demonstration video where I divide Bambusa textilis mutabilis on YouTube here https://youtu.be/7eJXF8SjCxk