Looking to make more historically accurate wooden buckets, one southwestern Nebraskan created his own business.
   Little did he know that it would lead to Hollywood and one of the best known museums in the
world. 
   It took Jim Gaster over 10 years to perfect Beaver Buckets, but patience is better than being an eager beaver. 
   "I like a challenge and to keep working at it and it's fun to create something from just a
board," he said.
    Jim's a former carpenter who's using those skills to send his old fashioned buckets all over the world. The first one he ever sold on the internet went to the Smithsonian Institute and they've even hit Hollywood in films like "Master and Commander." 
  "You're more in tune to seeing your buckets than the tone of the movie," Jim said. 
   Beaver Buckets has become a family business. Jim's wife, Marilyn, helps behind the scenes online, while one son wrote a one of a kind book on bucket making and the other began the
Beaver Buckets website. 
    As for the name, Jim gives credit to some little helpers. "Little beavers chew down the trees and the little sapplings grow up and then I take the straight sapplings. I leave the crooked sapplings for them for the hoops and handles, so little beavers get the first bite out of my business." 
   The beavers may get the first bite, but Jim's getting a lot of attention. 
   "People throughout the world don't know where Nebraska is, let alone Indianola, Nebraska. It used to be where you were located at was the important part now with the Internet, it's not as important as having a good website."