Make your own barrel planters. Thirteen staves and the bottom are cut from redwood. Barrel is held together with metal straps.
HANDY ANDY Apr 1979 (v.3#7) pg. 8
Solid wood coopered doors on a cabinet require a good jig. One jig style shown.
HOME FURNITURE #6 Spring 1996 pg. 98
Coved coopered doors. A curved, fluted door for a cabinet is made by covering separate cores of bending plywood with solid edge bands and face veneer prior to edge-gluing to make the door.
HOME FURNITURE #10 Apr 1997 pg. 78
Coopering wooden buckets fitted with wooden bail (handle). The stave sides are held in place with wooden hoops.
POPULAR WOODWORKING #41 Feb-Mar 1988 (v.7#5) pg. 34
Added Info POPULAR WOODWORKING #43 Jun 1988 (v.8#1) pg. 6
Coopered fruit bowl is made from wooden staves held in place with two steel bands.
POPULAR WOODWORKING #57 Nov 1990 (v.10#3) pg. 62
How to calculate the number of wooden staves and the required angle on the edge of the staves to build a circular wishing well.
WOOD MAGAZINE #79 Jun 1995 (v.12#4) pg. 80
Guide to sizing up staves and segments. Understanding the mathematics involved when fabricating staved cylinders or segmented rings.
WOOD MAGAZINE #126 Sep 2000 (v.17#6) pg. 16
Bird's-mouth router bits. Using these unique bits to make the strong edge joints found in hollow wooden cones, columns, or cylinders.
WOOD MAGAZINE #144 Oct 2002 (v.19#6) pg. 20
Redwood planter bucket has an octagonal shape and tapered sides. Includes instructions for cutting a tapered bevel (a compound angle) using a table saw.
WOODSMITH #16 Jul 1981 pg. 10
Make a firkin. Get an introduction to coopering by making a small wooden bucket where the bottom is larger than the top and a wooden dowel handle goes across the middle above the top opening.
WOODWORK #12 Winter 1991 pg. 72
Jig for holding wedges of wood in alignment when gluing up segments for a hollow cylinder.
WOODWORK #23 Sep-Oct 1993 pg. 16
How to make a wooden drinking vessel known as the "bride's cog". It is like a small bucket and features three handles which protrude from the top edge (lip) of the bucket. Made of teak and oak.
WOODWORKER #1037 Apr 1980 (v.84) pg. 246
Simple disc-sanding table with micro-adjustment for a lathe equipped with a sanding disc. Use it to achieve "perfect" joints when using coopering to prepare turning blanks.
WOODWORKER #1109 Apr 1986 (v.90#4) pg. 347
Segmented rings. An introduction to the technique of joining ring segments to make turning blanks for large containers. Also known as stave construction when used for coopered barrels. Looks at the basic joinery involved in making a multi-sided object from straight sections of wood.
WOODWORKER'S JOURNAL Sep-Oct 1988 (v.12#5) pg. 17
Added Info WOODWORKER'S JOURNAL Nov-Dec 1988 (v.12#6) pg. 6