This vintage volume contains a comprehensive guide to cooperage, being an accessible treatise on proper workshop practice and methods. Written in simple, plain language and full of helpful illustrations and invaluable tips, this handbook is ideal for he novice woodworker, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: Timber, Enemies of Wood, Forest Fires, Saws, Knives, Production of Slack Cooperage Stock, Harvesting Raw Material, Slack Stave Manufacture, Slack Barrel Hoop Manufacture, Modern Shop Management, Useful Rules and Information, etc....

PREFACE: THE preparation of this work has occupied the writers spare moments for a number of years. Originally the matter was not intendcd for publication, but the manu script has grown so large and complete, mhich consideration, combined with many repeated requests, has induced the writer to publish the matter in book form. While all other trades and professions have their lit erature more or less complete, the coopcrage industry has never before been represented by any teclinical work, and appears to have been neglected along these lines. Therefore, me trust that the t, rade m-ill...