Mike: That barrel-bar is really nice-looking.
You certainly did a lot of top-quality work and it shows.
I have a couple of questions...
(1) Did the shrinkage ever stop? We have three barrels (actually half/barrels) as part of our bar area and we have to juryrig the staves to each other to keep them from falling apart. That might be because there's no support on the cut side, but I was wondering if you had the same problem and had come up with a better-engineered solution.
(2) I was going to ask you if, now that you know more about what you're doing, you'd ever do another one.
Then I realized that you bought two barrels but only have the one bar.
I guess that answers THAT question
Anyway, nice work! And thanks for letting us watch.