How Things are Made: A Wooden Bucket

on DVD or video


Enjoy How Things Are Made: A Wooden Bucket, an educational documentary filmed at Historic Richmond Town in Staten Island, New York.  Filmed in 1850's period costume, a cooper (played by cooper Norm Pederson) teaches his apprentice the steps of making a wooden bucket and the tools that are used.  This DVD works as a elementary aid to our book How to Make a Coopered Wooden Bucket and is highly recommended to anyone who wants to learn about the trade of coopering.  2004, 23 minutes.

$28 DVD or video

 plus $4.50 shipping USA, Priority 7.00

To order  call 308-364-2528 for details

or write:

Beaver Buckets
71663 Rd 397
Indianola NE  69034 USA

 

 

The steps of coopering shown are:

1.  Preparing the wood
2.  Using the shaving horse to make boards
3.  Shaping the staves
4.  Filing the hoops
5.  Flaring the iron bands
6.  Driving on the hoops
7.  Measuring, cutting and placing the bottom in the bucket

 


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