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Making Buckets, the art of the Cooper


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I stumbled onto this video this morning.

At 52.27 minutes long I was sure I'd watch 5 minutes or fast forward a bunch but I found it captivating.

I feel that understanding how a wooden bucket is made will help modellers create realistic looking buckets for their ship models.

 

 

Alan O'Neill
"only dead fish go with the flow"   :dancetl6:

Ongoing Build (31 Dec 2013) - HMS BELLEROPHON (1786), POF scratch build, scale 1:64, 74 gun 3rd rate Man of War, Arrogant Class

Member of the Model Shipwrights of Niagara, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada (2016), and the Nautical Research Guild (since 2014)

Associate member of the Nautical Research and Model Ship Society (2021)

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Yes but the person doing the captions did a bad job of it.  Thank goodness I seem to speak a version of Australian 😉

Alan O'Neill
"only dead fish go with the flow"   :dancetl6:

Ongoing Build (31 Dec 2013) - HMS BELLEROPHON (1786), POF scratch build, scale 1:64, 74 gun 3rd rate Man of War, Arrogant Class

Member of the Model Shipwrights of Niagara, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada (2016), and the Nautical Research Guild (since 2014)

Associate member of the Nautical Research and Model Ship Society (2021)

Offshore member of The Society of Model Shipwrights (2021)

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Great video, this is what Utube is for in my opinion.

 

Thanks for finding and sharing

Finished builds are 

1/35 Endeavour's Longboat by Artesania Latina

1/36 scratch built Philadelphia Gunboat from the Smithsonian Plans

 

Current build is

Scratch build Boudroit's Monograph for La Jacinthe at 1/36

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He's a great example of the Strine wire flife.

 

Funny, I didn't have any trouble understanding him . . . :P

 

"Cooper" is from the same root word as the word "cup" - originally a cooper made barrels and cups. The street Coppergate in York (UK), where they found a large number of Viking artefacts is the Street ("gate" - a doublet of the word "gait") of the Coopers. 

 

Steven

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On 4/5/2021 at 3:57 PM, AON said:

I stumbled onto this video this morning.

At 52.27 minutes long I was sure I'd watch 5 minutes or fast forward a bunch but I found it captivating.

Alan, the Admiral and I just watched this together and we both give it a massive thumbs up. Many thanks!

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A model shipwright and an amateur historian are heads & tails of the same coin

current builds:

HMS Berwick 1775, 1/192 scratchbuild; a Slade 74 in the Navy Board style

Mediator sloop, 1/48 - an 18th century transport scratchbuild 

French longboat - CAF - 1/48, on hold

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