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Gaster fashions an oak stave with a drawknife.
bands around che bucket. Sometimes, he
uses tree saplings for bands, which inspired
the name for his business. “The little bea
vers chew the trees down and I use the
shoots that come up," lie says.
Gaster works four or five hours to cre
ate a bucket before sealing it with hot wax
and adding a rope or metal bail for carrying
the container. From crushed walnut hulls,
he concocts a dark brown stain, which he
applies to some buckets. A one-gallon camp
bucket sells for SI!().
"Each bucket has its own characteris
tics because each piece of wood is differ
ent," he says.
Gaster’s craftsmanship is known from
Hollywood to Washington, D.C., where his
buckets and barrels appear in movies, includ
ing Seabiscuit and Master and Commander, and
at the Smithsonian Institution and the White
House Visitor Center.
His largest creation to date is an 1,100-
gallon wooden water tower for the Littleton
Historical Museum in Littleton, Colo. He also
built five water and gunpowder casks mcxl
eled after containers excavated from che 1686
La Edit shipwreck off the Texas coast.
"We sene Jim detailed drawings because
we wanted to reproduce these items,” says Roy
Garrett, of the Corpus Christi Museum of
Science and History in Corpus Christi, Texas.
“His skills are rare and very much appreci
ated. Our archaeologist was very impressed."
Caster’s cools and bucket designs are
based on years of research at libraries,
museums and antique shops. Among his
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