Recycled wine barrel

The crystaline deposit is most likely Tartaric acid, A by product of red grapes. Some people use that as Cream of tartar when making snickerdoodle cookies. Great job, the wood looks awesome, and I love the fact that you recycled.
Thanks for sharing.

-- Even a broken clock is right twice a day, unless, it moves at half speed like ....-As the Saw Turns

Living in a place called Happy Valley, I am sure that your neighbors would help you empty the barrels so
you would not have to wait so long to start the next project, but I think that you are supposed to take
the wine from the barrel a very precise moment and put it in bottles, (as an apprentice vintner, I do not
know just when) so this could create a somewhat interesting diversion from woodworking. Was the lid
made from the bottom, top or sides of the barrel, and have you considered making a curved box from the
sides? Thank you for sharing.

-- As ever, Gus-the 74 yr young apprentice carpenter

I would love to see this very wine-barrel-originating bookcase used in a church to store a bible =D

-- Thomas - There is no such thing as a problem, there only are solutions.

I like it .. well done

-- keeping myself entertained

This was made from curved barrel staves with the spine left curved but the top and bottoms resawn into straight lengths and jointed together.

And yes I’m also making an oak chest using the coopered staves for a curved lid and again the sides and ends using resawn timber.

-- Howard, South Australia

this is a very nice box. but i see many boxes on here with metal hinge ,s which do not do the wood or the time it takes you to build a really nice box. try making some long wooden hinges yes it takes a bit longer but it is worth it. a tuter once told me a five minute job normaly looks like a five minute job keep up the good work