Making A Wooden Tub: Not As Simple As It Looks

The fact that you ended up with a full stave at the end accidently, is one of the most Jimmy things that I've ever seen

There's a formula for the bevels. Take the number of staves and divide by 180 and that will give you the bevel angle. Good work!

The "Cooper" (barrel maker) was such a necessary member of a crew during the Age of Sail, they were often impressed in to service with crews along with the Surgeon. Your problem-solving in your projects is an inspiration.

Jimmy I was an engineer for a red wood water tank company and the angled sides was very hard to get right so was the an oval double headed wine aging tank. We also did cooling towers, wine tanks and hot tubs. Retired now. If you want to try a tank the hoop lug are at Mc master Carr. Before my time we had built and installed a120” Dia. water aqueduct for a dam.

Just watched Laura Kampf and she called this Intuitive Building! Always love to see the thought process and trial and error.

Watching your videos reminds me of childhood, in the sense that me and my brother were always crafting something in our dad's workshop when we were kids. And then dad built something awesome for us. Thank you for sharing your work and ideas, Jimmy. Love from Denmark.

There's a guy up the road from me in Australia who makes architectural wooden bathtubs (business is called "Wood and Water"). I've no idea how he calculates the constantly changing angles, but the results are spectacular. He literally ships them all over the world.

Kind of emotional to see you making this wooden tub, I used to help my father building this kind of wooden tubs, but bigger. We never used glue or epoxy and imagine that you need to make a progressive bevel when you work with longer planks. My dad was the master. To find the proper angle for your bevels you need to make a tool using the diameter and the radius of the tub, you know, the angle of the bevels must converge in the center of the tub from top to bottom, hope you understand... Here in Transilvania were i live we use this big wooden tubs for fermenting plumes in the process of making palinca :)

I loved it when the bucket came apart but not in a malicious way, more of a that’s the sort of thing I’d do 😂 .love you work as usual

The way they make barrels is to heat the metal bands before they drive them in place so that when the band cools it shrinks and locks the staves in place. This is like how you heat the metal tyre for a wooden wheel.

That turkey version of "I take a your womannnn!" was excellent.

Thank you to Jimmy and Frank and every woodturner and maker and creator that expands my wooden tub of knowledge. It's not just entertainment , it is power. Knowledge is power

I've been subscribed to Jimmy for almost a decade now and I still can't wrap my head around the fact that he puts his name on EVERYTHING he owns.. more than once and sometimes less than a dozen times

Loved “Hammered!” I might have to find it again and binge watch. Love hearing your thinking process as you work through different projects. Thanks for bringing us along on your journey!

I imagine that when Jimmy was a kid someone sat in his favorite chair and when he said "hey that was my chair!" they said "Its yours? i dont see your name on it". And from that day forward....

Fantastic to watch this process. While unique compared to traditional methods it was fascinating to watch this come together. Just think, it wasn't all that long ago where we still relied on barrels made by coopers for shipping goods that now come in metal or plastic containers. Thanks for sharing!

Jimmy! You never cease to amaze me! A true inspiration for the many years i've been watching you on YouTube!

Would be cool sometime when you are in Louisville for you to tour the barrel making place and see how they do it in production. I bet they have some specialized machines for cooperage.

Long time viewer Jimmy, love your new style! Please keep up the commentary I learn so much 😅 . Love listening to the podcasts thanks

I’ve been distracted with life and hadn’t watched a Diresta video in a while, but I’m so thankful for Nick Offerman for introducing me to Jimmy.