buckets are fun..really

They are cool I’ve seen the ones you’ve made on you blog. Very nice , of course what else would you make but cool. I must admit it’s hard to think about a guy that can build and finish anything and everything including a bombay making buckets ,but that’s what it’s all about anythig and everything. enjoy all your work and DVDs
Thanks Charles

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Jim i really had a blast doing them…and oddly enough i had more emails and response to them than anything else… go figure..thats ehy i stuck it on here ..just for fun..

DANG! Some day there will be DSL in my area and I can watch but untill then I hope you put all of your web videos on dvd for us guys that live in the sticks. ...and as with Jim, there is the Charles Neil dvd shelf in the livingroom.

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I didn’t watch it all, but it’s still better than anything on TV :-))
guess I’ll put yoiu on my buddy list incase you do another!!

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I had a blast watching the video!! Thanks for posting it. Now I’ve got to build one. They look like a fun project

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Charles, I watched the rest of your video today. You really put a lot of effort into making it. Thanks. I have had a hankering to do a bit of coopering for a long time, whenever I get around to it. My idea was to make a couple of table saw jigs. One on the right side of the blade to start the first slat. The second on the left side to make as many successive slats as possible for the width of the material. Everytime you made a successive cut, you would flop the waste piece over to become the next slat until you ran out of material. This would maximize the number of slats you could possibly get out of a given piece of material. Of course, one would have to keep their wits about themselves and keep track of which way they were cutting or you could easily end up with a pile of kindling :=) Any comments?

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