# Stave (wood)

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{{Short description|Strips of wood used to make barrels and other circular wooden objects}}
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thumb|Wooden barrels made of multiple staves
[[File:WoodstavePipe.JPG|thumb|A wood stave pipeline for a [hydropower](/source/hydropower) application.]]
[[File:Yakima Project - Wood stave pipe line - Washington - NARA - 294748.tif|thumb|Wood stave pipeline part of the [https://www.usbr.gov/projects/index.php?id=400 Yakima Project]]]
A '''stave''' is a narrow length of wood with a slightly bevelled edge to form the sides of [barrel](/source/barrel)s, buckets, tanks, [tub](/source/Tub_(container))s, vats and [pipelines](/source/piping), originally handmade by [coopers](/source/Cooper_(profession)).<ref name="McmullencarpentersandjoinersPipe">{{cite web|url=http://www.mcmullencarpentersandjoiners.co.uk/pipe-bursting-wood-stave-british-columbia/|title=Pipe bursting wood stave in British Columbia - McMullen Carpenters And Joiners|work=McMullen Carpenters And Joiners |access-date=12 July 2014}}</ref> They have been used in the construction of large holding tanks and [penstocks](/source/penstocks) at [hydro power developments](/source/Hydroelectricity).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbppl.com/deerlake.htm|title=Deer Lake Power Development|access-date=2008-07-21|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509123316/http://www.cbppl.com/deerlake.htm|archive-date=2008-05-09}}</ref> 
They are also used in the construction of certain musical instruments with rounded bodies or backs.<ref>{{cite web |title=Greek Musical Instruments |url= http://larkinam.com/MOBGreek.html |work= Lark in the Morning: Musical Instruments From All Over The World Since 1974 |access-date= 2017-03-12 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170312205700/http://larkinam.com/MOBGreek.html  | archive-date=2017-03-12 | quote= 8 String [Bouzouki](/source/Bouzouki), 60 Stave Natural Special Walnut Back }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2017 |title= Latin Percussion Whiskey Barrel Cajon |url= http://www.zzounds.com/item--LATM1406WB  |work=zZounds |access-date= 2017-03-12 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170312200303/http://www.zzounds.com/item--LATM1406WB  | archive-date= 2017-03-12 }}</ref>

==See also==
*[Rubicon Hydroelectric Scheme](/source/Rubicon_Hydroelectric_Scheme), which has wood stave penstocks on operating power stations
*[Lake Margaret Power Station](/source/Lake_Margaret_Power_Station), which had a wood stave penstock replaced in 2010

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