Master?

[Anonymous]

If you're thinking of Norm being master craftsman, read his website Q&A.

His title is simply made up for the show and has no professional basis at all

 

[Digit]

Fundamentally, the word simply means 'a worker qualified to teach apprentices and to carry on a trade independently.'

Well on that basis I am a 'Master'
Wonder what that tells anybody about the quality of my workmanship!? :lol:

Roy.

 

[Smudger]

Have you completed your master-piece?

 

[Digit]

Yes ****, he's 6ft 2in tall and bloody handy when I want something shifted! :lol:

Roy.

 

[Smudger]

Don't let mine know, his head wouldn't get through the door...

Many years ago I did a visit to a college where the plumbing lads were finishing their courses and they had to make a lead collection box decorated with a painted and moulded coat of arms as a 'finishing' piece. They were pretty good, too.

Apart from elaborate tool cabinets, what did old style cabinet makers make as their masterpiece?

 

[Digit]

In my case **** it was a tool box.
Genuine Mahogany, lift up lid, drop down front, two full width draws and six smaller ones, the front lid with mitred frame and a raised panel, mounted on a plinth.
All french polished.
When I left the company the foreman told me I was not leaving with that box, he was having it!
The man who trained me gave a Moore and Wright tool box and half a weeks wage for it and the foreman was bloody furious!

Roy.

 

[Smudger]

Sounds good. The sort of thing that sells in Covent Garden Market for £400...

Perhaps it's time to make another one!

 

[Digit]

I'd love to ****. Unfortunately most of my present jobs are more in the carpentry line. Two out of the last three tasks have been doors and I've got another one to follow.
AND I HATE HANGING DOORS!!

Roy.

 

[brianhabby]

I HATE HANGING DOORS!!

Doesn't everyone...?

regards

Brian

 

[Digit]

Yeah, but I seem to have been mass producing the damn things in recent months. 22 so far and two to go!

Roy.

 

[brianhabby]

Keep it up Roy and you might become an expert at it :lol: :lol:

regards

Brian

 

[Digit]

I don't want to be an expert in door hanging, I hate door hanging! :lol: :lol:

Roy.

 

[compo]

Well guys, thanks for all the welcomes and the opinions.

Seems there's a definate divide between the 'older' more traditional folk and the 'younger' ones both here and in general. I was taught traditionally by one of the 'older' types, but like to think of myself as one of the 'younger' ones.

Think I'll let my work speak for itself :wink:

 

[Digit]

Traditional woodwork was as a result of lack of machines, believe me had routers, morticers, sanders etc etc etc been available to us we would have grabbed 'em!
In the absense of machines they employed apprentices. :lol:

Roy.

 

[compo]

In the absense of machines they employed apprentices. Laughing

How true, I remember those days. Machines were available, but a lowly nipper was allowed nowhere near. Not even a drill. Oh how I remember bashing a hammer drill into the wall, or bit n bracing countless mortices! :roll:

Then again, maybe that was just for the amusement of the 'Masters'

 

[Digit]

My most unfavourite job was hauling massive long lengths of hardwood out of the store shed and sawing the required amount off the end, by hand!
Today I'd love to get my hands on 8 inch by 24 inch hardwood but sawing it by hand, what ever the weather, leaves certain memories. javascript:emoticon('](*,)')
Brick wall

Roy.

 

[skipdiver]

I've been hanging oak veneered doors today in a boiling hot house with the sun beating down on me.They weigh a bloody ton and the woman asked me why i was sweating so much as she was chilly. :shock:

 

[skipdiver]

Forgot to mention,i also hate hanging doors.Two more to go tomorrow.

 

[compo]

Hey Steve

Think I may have read (several times in several places) before that you hate hanging doors!

What you need is an apprentice.....

 

[skipdiver]

You're probably right but i prefer to work alone.My bricky mate took on a young lad and he was next to useless.The final straw for him was when he asked young lad to get a hammer and bolster and start chopping out some brickwork.He said he wouldn't as the weather was too hot and he didn't want to get dirty.That was his last day in the building trade.