Spinster
11-14-2006, 07:22 PM
I've recently come into a fine reproduction wooden water yoke with matching wooden buckets. This project was designed to overcome some of the difficulties we've encountered in the past with the constant care and feeding required to maintain truely period correct properly cooped buckets.
In an attempt to not have to contantly keep these buckets soaked, and to be able to maintain them in a food-safe manner for events, these cooped buckets have been coated on the inside with a food grade sealant--to mitigate small leaks as the wood breathes, and to enable us to maintain a sanitary water supply.
The buckets have rope handles, straight sides, and are banded with saplings. Besides some pretty good fitting and the food grade sealant, there is a lot of glue hidden in the joins as well. Now that I have the buckets in hand, I find that I want to paint them to protect and maintain the exterior.
I appreciate it if those well versed in genre paintings of the period would post references to those picturing buckets or other common wood ware used outdoors or subject to rain or elements---I'd like to see how common that inclination to add a coat of paint was during the period, just in case I'm being a little too overprotective of my new toys.....
A bunch of other boxes and such are all about to get a coat of dark red buttermilk paint, and I'd like to make the mess all at one time.
In an attempt to not have to contantly keep these buckets soaked, and to be able to maintain them in a food-safe manner for events, these cooped buckets have been coated on the inside with a food grade sealant--to mitigate small leaks as the wood breathes, and to enable us to maintain a sanitary water supply.
The buckets have rope handles, straight sides, and are banded with saplings. Besides some pretty good fitting and the food grade sealant, there is a lot of glue hidden in the joins as well. Now that I have the buckets in hand, I find that I want to paint them to protect and maintain the exterior.
I appreciate it if those well versed in genre paintings of the period would post references to those picturing buckets or other common wood ware used outdoors or subject to rain or elements---I'd like to see how common that inclination to add a coat of paint was during the period, just in case I'm being a little too overprotective of my new toys.....
A bunch of other boxes and such are all about to get a coat of dark red buttermilk paint, and I'd like to make the mess all at one time.