Participants will learn the “arts and mysteries” of making straight-sided round wooden containers by making a pine water pail, using a shaving horse, drawknives, saws, planes and other tools of the trade. The properties of wood, tool safety and sharpening, and a brief history of the cooper’s trade will be reviewed.
Duration: 2 Days
Dates: July 19th - 20th 2025 (2 Days)
Includes:
$20 in Materials
Limited to: 6 Students
More: Workshop Information
All workshops begin at 9:30am on the first day of the program.
All participants must be 18+ years old.
Participants will learn the “arts and mysteries” of making straight-sided round wooden containers by making a pine water pail, using a shaving horse, drawknives, saws, planes and other tools of the trade. The properties of wood, tool safety and sharpening, and a brief history of the cooper’s trade will be reviewed.
Duration: 2 Days
Dates: July 19th - 20th 2025 (2 Days)
Includes:
$20 in Materials
Limited to: 6 Students
More: Workshop Information
All workshops begin at 9:30am on the first day of the program.
All participants must be 18+ years old.
Tom Kelleher is currently Historian, and Curator of Mechanical Arts at Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, where he has worn many hats both literally and figuratively for over 40 years, including as a cooper. Since 1984 he has not only made buckets and barrels (and taught those skills) there and at other museums in New England, New York, New Jersey and Virginia.
