Today on Modern Builds, I'm making my first project on the lathe: a hanging, wooden pendant light. I'm a complete novice woodturner and learning as I go, so don't try and learn from me on this video.

Brown-Forman noted last year it had previously sold stave mills — facilities that cut logs into the narrow strips of wood used in barrel making — in Alabama, Ohio and Tennessee to Independent ...

In short, cooperages only make the barrels bourbon ages in ... years for a cooper to master the skill of fitting the wood slats, called staves, together tightly for the barrels so that it has ...

There is no blueprint for making these barrels. It requires the expertise ... curves to form a circle when joined together so that they could serve as barrel staves. A 1-ton wooden barrel is 1.5 ...

The facility manufactures barrels to store and age whiskeys ... and teams in place to continue on this path, while also making investments that we believe will facilitate growth for generations ...

“I never think of myself as an artist. I just, you know, make these wooden birds,” says Guy. “Everything was coincidental,” he adds, of his success. “There was no rationale behind it.

LOUISVILLE — Spirits giant Brown-Forman Corp. has announced it’s reducing its global workforce by about 12% and closing its hometown barrel-making plant in Louisville. The cost-cutting moves ...