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Make your own  wooden bucket!!!!

How-to Book About Bucket Making is Now Available

Mr. Gaster now shares his knowledge as a cooper by releasing a How-to Book about bucket making.  Over the past year, Mr. Gaster has been working with his son Bryan (pen name David Gasten), who is a professional writer, to create a how-to book entitled How To Make a Coopered Wooden Bucket, has been published by Pleasant Word Publishers.  The book  guides the reader through the construction of the Primitive Camp Bucket, using hand tools available in the modern-day woodworker's workshop and explaining the terms and tools used along the way.  How To Make a Coopered Wooden Bucket is 96 pages in length and  includes 135 detailed illustrations and carefully written, step-by-step instructions. 

                      Table of Contents

• Chapter 1:  Introduction

• Chapter 2:  Types of Coopering

• Chapter 3:  Nomenclature

• Chapter 4:  Tools and Materials Needed

• Chapter 5   Making Stave Gauges

• Chapter 6:  Making a Wooden Bucket:  The Process in detail

•     1.  Selecting Wood

•     2.  From Staves to bucket

•         A.  Shaping and Adding Temporary Hoops

•         B.  Making and Adding Temporary Hoops

•         C.  Cutting and Croze

•         D.  Assembling and Inserting the Head

•         E.  Smoothing the Outside of the Bucket

•         F.  Making and Adding Permanent Hoops

•         G.  Smoothing the Edges of the Bucket

•         H.  Making and Adding the Bail (Rope Handle)

•         I.   Finishing

• Chapter 7:  How to Care For Your Bucket

• Chapter 8:  Gallery

• Sources/Bibliography

• About the Author

To order call 308-364-2528 for a Visa or MasterCard purchase or send a money order to

Beaver Buckets, 71663 Road 397, Indianola, NE 69034-8067

The price is $16.99 plus $4.00 shipping and handling. 

Demonstrations in October 2005

We are planning to make a trip to the west coast in October of 2005.  We are now setting up demonstrations.  Would your museum site or town celebration be enhanced by having a cooper demonstrate how to make a bucket as the coopers did in centuries past?  We are planning to go through western Nebraska into Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, California, Utah and back through Wyoming.  Call 308-364-2528 to inquire.
 

New Items from Beaver Buckets!

"Make Your Own Bucket" Kits 



Making a basic wooden bucket will now be easy for everyone with Beaver Buckets' new "Make Your Own Bucket" Kit.  Mr. Gaster designed the "Make Your Own Bucket" Kit as an easy-to-make, inexpensive craft project that most anyone, young or old, could make themselves.  The kit comes with pre-cut staves, head, hoops, rope, staples, hoop driver, and complete instructions, and takes around 30 minutes to make.  The "Make Your Own Bucket" Kit makes an excellent gift for the hobbyist and is fully functional and usable after it has been made.

Butter Boxes

What do you do with all that butter now that you've churned the milk with your Butter Churn and separated the buttermilk from the butter with your Butter Paddles?  You press it into form in a Butter Box.  Our new Butter Boxes enable you to make a one-pound pad of butter the way it would have been made years ago.  It's the perfect accessory for any of our Butter Churns!

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