I can't tell you how interesting it is to hear someone using 150-year-old tools talk about how Pliny the freaking elder wrote words relative to his trade.
When someone is at the top of their game , they're worth listening to / watching . This man is no exception ! He knows and is obviously passionate about his work and comes across amazingly well . An absolute pleasure to watch .
These videos inspired me to get back into wood work. I used to do it a lot but stopped because of lack of interest and motivation but Eoins content inspired me to get back into it.
I come from a family of Coopers, but never really thought too much about it. This was a fascinating video, and an awesome way to finally learn a bit about what gave my mother's family their name!
This is fantastic whiskey, wood working and history documentary, fantastic craftsman that needs to be honoured not just for his craft but the information he preserves for future coopers he is passing on
you are so right .. he needs to be honored and such a display of tools, his art, his craft.. amazing hope you can help him get this out in a documentary to honor his amazing MIND .. love from usa minnesota Merri
What an amazing and interesting video. Whoever heard of a 5th generation Cooper, but the tools Mr. Buckley owns, and their uses explained, made this a worthwhile experience 🥰🇮🇪🧡
I absolutely love how well educated this man is on his trade and its history. Right down to saying hieroglyphs instead of hieroglyphics. It's the kind of detail that tells me he really genuinely knows wtf he's talking about when he brings up the egyptian methods
Thank you so very much to make a video about this so quickly forgotten craftsmanship. I have seen them work crazy fast. Taking a barrel apart and fixing a leak. The stories behind the tools give me even more respect for the old tools and the people who used them.
What a treat! 50 minutes of passion. Edit: That looks like the most bot comment I have ever written but I'm enjoying this... Edit2: I wish I could re-experience this. It was over before I realized.
He knows his stuff, and he knows he knows it, ‘n I got nothing less than the utmost respect for this guy. More knowledge in his hands than most people have in their heads
he gives away so many industry secrets, insider information, but no one can create the cask taste that he is making. he shares just enough for you to know he knows, but you’ll never be able to do what he does unless you get to know him.
He’s got such a great way of presenting and teaching, a very engaging professional. Thank for sharing his knowledge with us Eoin. Edit: yes, would love another session!
This is UA-cam at its absolute best. This man's knowledge is astounding and fully deserves to be recorded and shared. Hats off to you, what a joyful video.
So nice to hear a master craftsman with a real passion for his trade explaining the history of the cooper And good to know that the trade is still alive in this day and age I had a laugh when he explained about hiding his stained hands on a Friday night, as a hardwood sawmiller in my youth in Tasmania I did the same thing .
Ger is a living treasure, nothing less. Great video! Eoin, you have a grand way with words yourself but I very much appreciate your choice to say nothing much here... Mr Buckley has it covered.
Amazing skill, and such a good talk - aimed at the perfect level for someone familiar with your videos, I think. Really great to hear about the history, and the recognition of the indigenous craftspeople who have been using these tools and methods for so long.
This was such a fantastic watch winding down of an evening. I didn't expect him to hold forth on the works of Roman historians or ancient Egyptians, but what an absolute delight it was that he did, marrying historical context to modern craftsmanship. He's just got such a wealth of skill and knowledge, I can't imagine how lovely it was to spend time talking with him. Thank you so much for sharing this experience!
Thank you, Ger, for sharing your knowledge. This was absolutely riveting, and I learnt so many new things! You made these fifty minutes fly by. Also, thank you, Eoin, for making this documentary!
been binging all your long-form videos lately, now you’ve got me hoping I can make my own desk someday. it’ll be a while for sure, but thanks for inspiring me. also, this guy’s cool as hell. good luck!!
Everything he does and knows is so matter-of-fact to him. He has lived it his while working life. Passing this on is so important. 👌 At least it's recorded here. Just shows how important UA-cam is becoming as a repository of human knowledge.
Incdeiblde video.... learned so much from it. Love the barrels and have a few too .... love those tools and everything you do. God bless you.. Love from USA Merri in Minnesota USA
This is as good of documentary as ever seen on rte or tng4. Yourre doing fantasitc work interviewing these skilled craftsman. Well done Eoin. Fair play.
Did trade work for a brewery once. They had a beer fermented in old whiskey barrels. Some of the best tasting beer I've ever had. Many people today not understand the importance of the trades.
Glad you show more traditional crafts! I fell in love with Ireland when I visited Galway Arts Festival 2 years ago and through my ex, now I long to take a holiday back (although I wish the public transport was a bit better 😅). For now your videos do the trick of transferring the Irish charm! Thanks 🍀
My surname is Hooper. Some of my ancestors come from Ireland. There is a more than zero chance one of my ancestors may have worked that anvil. This video made me smile to watch what my ancestors would have done to earn our family name.
Wow Eoin I always enjoy your videos, but this one was very interesting. I've been to living museums and seen Cooperages and listened to a museum docent explain the process of barrel building, but this was so much more interesting hearing from an actual old time cooper. Thank you for your wonderful content.
Fascinating! I've been building guitars for 18 years and there are many parallels in procedures and tools. Not many luthiers now build in the traditional ways, most, like me, rely on machines for speed and accuracy, but still some procedures are more satisfying done in a hands on style. Violin building is still mostly done in the old traditional ways with the exception of some of the more labour intensive procedures. A very inspiring report.
Absolutely incredible. I feel like every single sentence he said should be a citation on, a Wikipedia article. Honestly it was almost hard to follow at times because I was struggling to process the weight of the last sentence. So incredible to see the clear generational knowledge that he carries, as well as the knowledge of "well duh, this is how they have always done it because this is how I do it." meanwhile it's secret knowledge the the average population.
Please do more videos in this vein. I love your woodworking, but this is such invaluable historical record that is not common to see on the internet. Instead of a documentary, where some actor is reading a script, this is a tradesman using his personal experience and inherited knowledge to explain every last detail of his craft. I genuinely don't know any other accessible place on the internet supplying this, if you do i'd love to hear about it. Thank you for the video Eoin!
I love this!! Always so cool and fascinating learning about tools history and how to build well anything!!! thank you both if not more for makeing such a great video! 💙
Fantastic. I hope you can make a couple more videos like that, just a mastercrafter showing a bit of knowlodge, but I bet it will be hard to find someone as skilled on making a documentary, he nailed it.
My namesake ancestor left Ireland for St John's Newfoundland in the mid-19th century to be a cooper in the cod fishery. I believe it was his grandson who moved south to Boston and himself worked as a cooper. He was my father's grandfather.
Like someone says below this man needs to be honored for allof this amazing knowledge he has.. GOD BLESS HIM. and you for bringing this to us....... I have to listen again tomorrow.. in awe of all this knowledge and history within it.. blessings. Merri in Minnesota usa
It were eion and some other content creators and poeple like ger that caused me to rethink my workinglife so far and as a result to switch profession from IT and become a apprentice carpenter in my thirties. I never enjoyed work more.
My ears perked up listening to the names you mentioned. One of those names, "Powers", is also my maiden surname. My Daddy's parents, my paternal grandparents, came over from Ireland. They were from County Cork. Their first names were Lawrence and Mary. My Daddy's name was also Lawrence. He had one brother, George. Unfortunately, I never met those grandparents as they were gone long before I was born but I've always wondered about the origins of the "Powers" name. I once read that it used to be O'Powers and before that it was O'Poer, which I was told meant 'the poor man'. Not a very proud heritage if it's true. I'd rather believe my Daddy's family had a more elegant origin but I honestly don't know. I would dearly love to visit Ireland someday, as well as Switzerland, where my maternal grandmother was from. She married an Englishman, so my ancestry is 1/4 English, 1/4 Swiss and 1/2 Irish. 😊☘🍀
I can't tell you how interesting it is to hear someone using 150-year-old tools talk about how Pliny the freaking elder wrote words relative to his trade.
Always delighted whenever I see these square-frame videos. They're therapeutic experiences for me.
I believe it to be the superior aspect ratio.
I was lucky enough to see a demonstration by Ger about 12 years ago. He's a gifted craftsman and a mine of knowledge.
When someone is at the top of their game , they're worth listening to / watching . This man is no exception ! He knows and is obviously passionate about his work and comes across amazingly well .
An absolute pleasure to watch .
So Right!
These videos inspired me to get back into wood work. I used to do it a lot but stopped because of lack of interest and motivation but Eoins content inspired me to get back into it.
I come from a family of Coopers, but never really thought too much about it. This was a fascinating video, and an awesome way to finally learn a bit about what gave my mother's family their name!
This is fantastic whiskey, wood working and history documentary, fantastic craftsman that needs to be honoured not just for his craft but the information he preserves for future coopers he is passing on
you are so right .. he needs to be honored and such a display of tools, his art, his craft.. amazing hope you can help him get this out in a documentary to honor his amazing MIND .. love from usa minnesota Merri
For sure ! he is a true craftsman !!
What an amazing and interesting video. Whoever heard of a 5th generation Cooper, but the tools Mr. Buckley owns, and their uses explained, made this a worthwhile experience 🥰🇮🇪🧡
I absolutely love how well educated this man is on his trade and its history. Right down to saying hieroglyphs instead of hieroglyphics. It's the kind of detail that tells me he really genuinely knows wtf he's talking about when he brings up the egyptian methods
Such a treat when Eoin drops a long form video.
Thank you so very much to make a video about this so quickly forgotten craftsmanship.
I have seen them work crazy fast. Taking a barrel apart and fixing a leak.
The stories behind the tools give me even more respect for the old tools and the people who used them.
What a treat! 50 minutes of passion.
Edit: That looks like the most bot comment I have ever written but I'm enjoying this...
Edit2: I wish I could re-experience this. It was over before I realized.
He knows his stuff, and he knows he knows it, ‘n I got nothing less than the utmost respect for this guy. More knowledge in his hands than most people have in their heads
YESSS A 50 MINUTE LONG VIDEO IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS DAYY
More coming soon
I cant wait bro@@EoinReardon
I hope one of them is you. 😉🤣@@EoinReardon
@@neynahnehnah1485 LMAO
he gives away so many industry secrets, insider information, but no one can create the cask taste that he is making. he shares just enough for you to know he knows, but you’ll never be able to do what he does unless you get to know him.
He’s got such a great way of presenting and teaching, a very engaging professional. Thank for sharing his knowledge with us Eoin. Edit: yes, would love another session!
always a pleasure to listen to older fellas like this talking about their craft, always feels like youre learnin something
Now this is exactly the kind of thing the internet was made for! Thank you for sharing, the passion for the work really comes across.
I love how he systematically categorizes and organizes all of his tool whilst explaining his crafty. Beauty of a video man
Excellent video. I love all the old crafts
Sir you come across as an Irish Dibnah with a charm to make other, honest crafters sparkle. Keep her up :)
I loved this! Thank you!
I really appreciate your long form videos! I was so excited to see almost an hour long video! ❤😊
Fascinating. I have a bottle of Jameson. Smooth taste. 👍👍
This is UA-cam at its absolute best. This man's knowledge is astounding and fully deserves to be recorded and shared. Hats off to you, what a joyful video.
Thank You for sharing this!! Very interesting. I so admire all people that can work with wood!
So nice to hear a master craftsman with a real passion for his trade explaining the history of the cooper
And good to know that the trade is still alive in this day and age
I had a laugh when he explained about hiding his stained hands on a Friday night, as a hardwood sawmiller in my youth in Tasmania I did the same thing .
Ger is a living treasure, nothing less. Great video!
Eoin, you have a grand way with words yourself but I very much appreciate your choice to say nothing much here... Mr Buckley has it covered.
Thank you for being such an inspiration for my woodworking
This was amazing Eoin so much more to it then ya knows
Absolutely brilliant
Amazing skill, and such a good talk - aimed at the perfect level for someone familiar with your videos, I think.
Really great to hear about the history, and the recognition of the indigenous craftspeople who have been using these tools and methods for so long.
Absolutely fantastic. The whole video was an enjoyable tour and demonstration.
This was such a fantastic watch winding down of an evening. I didn't expect him to hold forth on the works of Roman historians or ancient Egyptians, but what an absolute delight it was that he did, marrying historical context to modern craftsmanship. He's just got such a wealth of skill and knowledge, I can't imagine how lovely it was to spend time talking with him. Thank you so much for sharing this experience!
Love listening to people who are so masterful and passionate about something.
This man doesn’t just do his job he knows his job. To all real craftsmen passion is in the heart.
You're right, listening to this man sharing the intricacies of his craft is absolutely entrancing.
Master Craftsman. Watching from the U.S.A fellas . Thanks ✌️ bringing us all together.
Thank you, Ger, for sharing your knowledge. This was absolutely riveting, and I learnt so many new things! You made these fifty minutes fly by.
Also, thank you, Eoin, for making this documentary!
been binging all your long-form videos lately, now you’ve got me hoping I can make my own desk someday. it’ll be a while for sure, but thanks for inspiring me. also, this guy’s cool as hell. good luck!!
Lovely video! Watched it all the way through. Loved hearing this gem of a man talk
This is bloody excellent. Great video Eion.
Everything he does and knows is so matter-of-fact to him. He has lived it his while working life. Passing this on is so important. 👌 At least it's recorded here. Just shows how important UA-cam is becoming as a repository of human knowledge.
Fantastic! Best thing I've watched for a long time.
Incredible video - thanks to you both!
Can you do more of these vids, because this is awesome having crazy experienced people just ramble on without anyone interrupting them.
Incdeiblde video.... learned so much from it. Love the barrels and have a few too .... love those tools and everything you do. God bless you.. Love from USA Merri in Minnesota USA
This is as good of documentary as ever seen on rte or tng4. Yourre doing fantasitc work interviewing these skilled craftsman. Well done Eoin. Fair play.
Did trade work for a brewery once. They had a beer fermented in old whiskey barrels. Some of the best tasting beer I've ever had. Many people today not understand the importance of the trades.
This is fascinating and this honorable gentleman craftsman is great at explaining everything. He’s one of Ireland’s national treasures!!!
Glad you show more traditional crafts! I fell in love with Ireland when I visited Galway Arts Festival 2 years ago and through my ex, now I long to take a holiday back (although I wish the public transport was a bit better 😅). For now your videos do the trick of transferring the Irish charm! Thanks 🍀
My surname is Hooper. Some of my ancestors come from Ireland. There is a more than zero chance one of my ancestors may have worked that anvil. This video made me smile to watch what my ancestors would have done to earn our family name.
This was excellent! Fascinating. Thanks for sharing it.
Keep up the good videos
Wow Eoin I always enjoy your videos, but this one was very interesting. I've been to living museums and seen Cooperages and listened to a museum docent explain the process of barrel building, but this was so much more interesting hearing from an actual old time cooper. Thank you for your wonderful content.
I can confidently say I've never cared or wondered how barrels are made in my life. With that said, I am enthralled with barrel making now
Fascinating! I've been building guitars for 18 years and there are many parallels in procedures and tools. Not many luthiers now build in the traditional ways, most, like me, rely on machines for speed and accuracy, but still some procedures are more satisfying done in a hands on style. Violin building is still mostly done in the old traditional ways with the exception of some of the more labour intensive procedures. A very inspiring report.
This is brilliant. I hope he has apprentices so we don't lose his knowledge and experience. Great vid.
absolutely gawjus, thank you for sharing this incredible craftsman and his art.
Thank you ❤
Nice speech from Ger, I would love to visit there if i ever went to that side of the world.
Absolutely incredible. I feel like every single sentence he said should be a citation on, a Wikipedia article. Honestly it was almost hard to follow at times because I was struggling to process the weight of the last sentence. So incredible to see the clear generational knowledge that he carries, as well as the knowledge of "well duh, this is how they have always done it because this is how I do it." meanwhile it's secret knowledge the the average population.
Please do more videos in this vein. I love your woodworking, but this is such invaluable historical record that is not common to see on the internet. Instead of a documentary, where some actor is reading a script, this is a tradesman using his personal experience and inherited knowledge to explain every last detail of his craft. I genuinely don't know any other accessible place on the internet supplying this, if you do i'd love to hear about it.
Thank you for the video Eoin!
Enjoyed your video just as much as I enjoyed my own visit to the distillery years ago! Highly recommend people add this place to their travel plans.
All I can say Eoin is Wow Ger Buckley is one amazing guy and I understand the Honor of having tools passed down I still use my granfathers tools !
Well done . absolutely brilliant video
The phenotypical expression of different offspring showing in cask wood flavors. Probably the terpines.
I love this!! Always so cool and fascinating learning about tools history and how to build well anything!!! thank you both if not more for makeing such a great video! 💙
This was brilliant. Really loved this.
i also did not want the video to end! this is awesome!
This is excellent and fascinating thank you so much for sharing this…
What a fascinating video!! Thank you!
Mind bendingly interesting.. Thanks lad. Enjoyed it much.
Great video. Simple video. Learned alot. Many of the tools I knew of. But have never used.
Fascinating!
..."next session"?
Yes, please.
Fascinating ❤
"this isnt from chooping. Its for cyarving" love it
Fantastic. I hope you can make a couple more videos like that, just a mastercrafter showing a bit of knowlodge, but I bet it will be hard to find someone as skilled on making a documentary, he nailed it.
My namesake ancestor left Ireland for St John's Newfoundland in the mid-19th century to be a cooper in the cod fishery. I believe it was his grandson who moved south to Boston and himself worked as a cooper. He was my father's grandfather.
Brilliant! What a national treasure!
Like someone says below this man needs to be honored for allof this amazing knowledge he has.. GOD BLESS HIM. and you for bringing this to us....... I have to listen again tomorrow.. in awe of all this knowledge and history within it.. blessings. Merri in Minnesota usa
That was super interesting!
This guy is gold.
you tricked me, this is just fifty minutes of Eoin talking to some Irish guy named Cooper!
You've gone from a UA-camr to a full-on documentary maker, Eoin! Maith an buachaill.
It were eion and some other content creators and poeple like ger that caused me to rethink my workinglife so far and as a result to switch profession from IT and become a apprentice carpenter in my thirties. I never enjoyed work more.
Quarter sawn oak is a beautiful thing. And not me over here getting emotional about the hammer used for so long the handle is worn.
Gotta love whiskey. And Eoin
Guinness better
My ears perked up listening to the names you mentioned. One of those names, "Powers", is also my maiden surname. My Daddy's parents, my paternal grandparents, came over from Ireland. They were from County Cork. Their first names were Lawrence and Mary. My Daddy's name was also Lawrence. He had one brother, George. Unfortunately, I never met those grandparents as they were gone long before I was born but I've always wondered about the origins of the "Powers" name. I once read that it used to be O'Powers and before that it was O'Poer, which I was told meant 'the poor man'. Not a very proud heritage if it's true. I'd rather believe my Daddy's family had a more elegant origin but I honestly don't know.
I would dearly love to visit Ireland someday, as well as Switzerland, where my maternal grandmother was from. She married an Englishman, so my ancestry is 1/4 English, 1/4 Swiss and 1/2 Irish. 😊☘🍀
You need a sign with your twitter/youtube/tiktok handles and keep it in view plus a watermark to stop the vid stealers!
A true master craftsman
This guy was on whiskey tribe as well!
fascinating. Old tools are the best tools
Amazing video
Fantastic content
As much as I enjoy seeing you make things this was such an interesting video to watch. This guy would make a killing if he made his own yt channel
Wow,
That was brilliant.
Wow, This is Great!
You nailed it eoin fair play to you boy
Such a cool video!