Tillers International Coopering Class

http://www.tillersinternational.org/woodworking/classes_445_coopering.html
The cooper was essential to packaging early fluid products. Tillers students learn to make a small bucket, or piggin, using coopering tools to shape bucket staves and cut the croze for tight bottom fits. The skills learned in this class enable students to make traditional white coopered (straight staved) items.

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[dawg1157]

Outstanding video. Thank You!

My question is if you were building a larger barrel would you follow much the same process as the barrel you constructed?

[TillersInternational]

This process will work for most sizes of casks:

-Quarter sawn lumber, rough cut stave blanks. Length and width of blanks based on your casks.

-Make a template of the average stave size, trace the outline on the stave blank.

-Dress the staves on the shaving horse using the draw and hollowing knives. Rough cut bevel with side ax or use shaving horse and drawknife to cut side bevels.

-Use a clapper gauge, join the edge of the stave. See Foxfire bk 3 for directions.

-Raise cask, see video.

[mtforge]

I've taken this class before and highly recommend it. They also have a class before this to make your own coppering tools.

[TillersInternational]

Thanks mtforge! Glad you enjoyed your class. We're also offering Coopering Butter Churns and Coopering Barrels now.

[gogogeedus]

I have recently discovered that the word bucket is a very ancient western European and Mediterranean name that may i believe date back 10000 years to the time that lions and hyenas roamed west coast Europe,the name can be split into two, the first half meaning wood or sticks,eg; Bow,burg,borg,bor,the second half ket,eg; kart,get,gart,ghetto,guard,gar­den,the second half relates to enclosing.

so the name means wood enclosure.

origins,fortification to defend against large toothed predictors

[fernado2005b]

great video love work wood blacksmith where you guys located and what cost of the class?thnak you

[grabazztcksnotball]

great info the audio sucks a lough