By BETSY COHEN / Photographed by TOM BAUER of the Missoulian Jun 12, 2009 Jun 12, 2009 0 Staves to stools - Crafts of wine and furniture making cross paths keeping barrel wood out of landfills TOM ...

The best bourbon takes time to make. One of the time-consuming steps in the process is that of making the barrel. Here's how it's done and why it takes so long.

Building a perfect wine barrel Coopers season, toast and bend for the best wine containers By JACK HEEGER Napa Valley Register Jan 28, 2008 0 ...

At this point the bottom staves still aren’t pulled side-by-side or fitted with a hoop, and he must put the barrel in a steam oven for about an hour to make the wood malleable, then use a winch ...

A family-run business in Spain has been making handmade wine barrels since 1975. Tonelería Herfe makes about 6,000 oak barrels a year and sells them for up to $670 each.

The staves dry for about a month. There are four, different ways to give a barrel its shape. At Black Swan, they do water bending by putting the staves in water that can reach up to 160 degrees.