On 2017-03-19 2:55 PM, philschempf@g... wrote:
> I made a couple of buckets for my daughter so I found the video pretty
interesting. I used a stick like that to gauge the thickness of the bottom
before I fit them together. No fancier name than stick. I doweled and glued the
staves together and thought it was cheating for lack of skill. Was heartened to
see journeymen do the same.
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> Phil
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> Sent from my HTC
I don't think it's a burnisher or a measuring stick, because I don't 
think he's either measuring or burnishing. It seems to me he's actually 
significantly compressing the edge to fit in the groove in the sidewall 
(whatever that's called), pre-loading it in a sense to fill the groove 
dry - even before milk or water hit it. You can see the ridge he creates 
at 21:10.

FWIW
Don


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