Re training to be a Carpenter

[Racers]

or this is good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JSahEDR ... re=related

Pete

 

[Benchwayze]

Hmmmm.. Thanks Pete.

The best line was the last one by Corbett. 'A pain in the neck.'

I am assuming the second one is a take of the first.
Funnier, because of Fry, but only marginally so.
Sorry if I seem to have no SOH, but this doesn't hit my 'funny-bone' I fear!

Cheers for the explanation tho! I suppose it does have some relevance, but I don't think I was drawing derogatory distinctions! I was agreeing with Chippy.
:lol: .

 

[Racers]

Hi, Benchwayze

I agree with you about different skills not level of skills.

Pete

 

[Benchwayze]

Cheers Pete. It was just that I couldn't see the relevance of the 'comedy' sketch to the debate. I led a very sheltered life in those days; sheltering from the sea and the rain and the wind! So I never watched much TV.
Watching some of the fare on the 'box' these days, I sometimes wonder if I was indeed more fortunate than I thought.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[chippy1970]

Are you saying one is better than the other OPJ ?

I am a "carpenter & joiner" as that is what I qualified in (City & Guilds) and have been doing for 20+ years. One week I could be pitching a roof and another I could be building built in furniture to a very high standard.

Yes I know there are some rough carpenters out there but there are also some rubbish furniture makers doing quiet well for themselves :x

Sorry, no, it's not a question of one being better than the other but I like to think of two as being quite different with the levels of skill involved. I've got a C&G qualification in C&J myself. I'm training to be a Cabinet Maker right now and it frustrates me when people still refer to me as a "Carpenter" when I've made a piece of furniture! :roll: I didn't use to think there was much between the two until I went back to college last year.

Yeah but you are contradicting yourself you say one is not better than the other but then you say the furniture maker is at a higher skill level better in other words.

I class a Carpenter as someone who works with wood so that could be any job involving wood.

I myself could do any job with wood to a very high standard including furniture making but I wouldnt say i was a furniture maker. I am not a jack of all trades either but any good carpenter can put his or her hands to anything wood related.

 

[Green]

Benchwayze, it was a silly joke and it wasn't aimed at you.

 

[spannermonkey]

Whilst we are celebrating Xmas. Remember Jesus was a carpenter. And going by this thread, we should follow Jesus and forgive an forget our differences and live a long and Peaceful life in harmony. :lol:

 

[big soft moose]

Whilst we are celebrating Xmas. Remember Jesus was a carpenter. And going by this thread, we should follow Jesus and forgive an forget our differences and live a long and Peaceful life in harmony. :lol:

technically he was the son of a carpenter (okay I know he was the son of god alledgedly but that aside it was joseph who was the carpenter).

jesus himself wouldnt have had much time for carpentry what with all the time spent recruiting disciples, throwing usurers out of the temple, and performing miracles. Doesn't leave a lot of time for knocking up a nice kitchen in veneer faced mdf

 

[davin]

well lets face it. That Jesus bloke,he should have been a plumber - he would have earnt a lot more

 

[Doug B]

well lets face it. That Jesus bloke,he should have been a plumber - he would have earnt a lot more

Problem there is if he`d fixed ya bog it would flush with wine!!! Not a problem, but i wouldn`t want to drink it from that bowl :lol: :lol:

 

[phantom of the offcut]

Carpenter Joiner for me too and proud of it , and i like to build furniture and boats for fun , perhaps we could settle on woodworkers after all we are but mere manual worker's so we all look up to ? (bankers perhaps?).

 

[Out int shed]

Back to the original post...... From the sounds of it you are on the FCA or ICA Wood Occupations course which is fine for learning the basics such as the 12 basic joints, bathroom cabinate, staircase etc – I did a similar course but was disappointed overall.

I found that the college training provided was far to focussed on paperwork and classroom teaching, rather than actual workshop training.

In my humble opinion, I have found the best way into this business is to gain some basic skills through college and then practice, practice, practice and practice some more. But practice does not mean repeatedly sawing mitre cuts in the same bit of offcut.

Start a projects book - just a collection of sketches of stuff you would like to make and pick something practical. Have a crack at it with softwood first and if you like the result, copy again but in hardwood.

You will soon find that most different jobs can be completed using the same basic skills - crack those basics and your half way there.

Then its more practice, practice, practice.... you get the idea!