In every business, the most important thing is the beginning! If you are planning to build your own bath, then start by making a wooden bucket, which must be present in this bath. Complete the work, let your hands feel all the charm of rough wood and calluses.
It is necessary
Planks of oak, aspen or linden about 10 mm thick, about 40 cm high, a blank for a bottom 25 cm in diameter and 20 mm thick, carpentry tools, two metal hoops
Instructions
Step 1
Gently grind off the end of the bottom workpiece in a circle to a depth of 10 mm. In the planks on the side where they will be attached to the bottom, make recesses 12 mm wide and 4 mm deep. The bottom of the future bucket will be installed in these recesses.
Step 2
Cut the longitudinal edges of the workpieces with a plane at an angle sufficient to tightly connect the planks to each other in a circle with a bottom diameter. Fit the boards tightly to each other and number. To fix the planks around the bottom, use a metal strip about 50 mm wide. The second hoop will tighten the boards at a distance of 10 cm from the top edge of the bucket.
Step 3
Place the prepared planks around the bottom and pull together with twine. Make sure that the bottom goes into the grooves. Measure the circumference of the future bucket at the bottom and at the top, cut off the metal strips of a slightly longer length for the rivet. Put on the hoop riveted to the required size from below and gradually upset until it sits down, pressing the boards very tightly to each other. Put on the upper hoop of a larger diameter and sit down, squeezing the boards on top of the bucket.
Step 4
For the handle of the bucket, you can use thick twine or rope, drilling enough holes from the top in the planks located opposite each other. Pass the rope through these holes and tie. You can use a wire for the handle, but since all metal objects are very hot in the bath, drill a hole in the wooden cylinder for the wire and insert the wire into an impromptu wooden handle.
Step 5
Pour water into a wooden bucket - it pours through the cracks! This is natural - the tree needs to absorb moisture in order to swell, when this happens, the cracks will disappear by themselves and the bucket will be ready for use in the bath. In the same way, you can make wooden ladles, mugs and troughs. You made a wooden bucket, now the bath itself is next in line with light steam!
