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In the UK, an apprentice of wood occupations could choose to study bench joinery or site carpentry and joinery. Bench joinery is the preparation, setting out, and manufacture of joinery components while site carpentry and joinery focus on the installation of the joinery components, and on the setting out and fabrication of timber elements used ...
Carpenter and joiner has broad skill sets ranging from joinery, finish carpentry, framing, and formwork. Conservation carpenter works in architectural conservation, known in the U.S. as a "preservation" or "restoration"; a carpenter who works in historic preservation, maintaining structures as they were built or restoring them to that condition.
A form of bench dog, a traditional holdfast has either a curved or flat top. Its shank is slid loosely into a “dog” hole in the bench until the tip of its hook touches the work. It is set by hitting its top with a mallet or hammer, which causes the shaft to wedge tightly against the sides of the hole. A tap of its back side near the top ...
Epitomized by the Black & Decker Workmate, a bench invented and patented by Ron Hickman, [1] they can be used for a wide range of manual work. Woodworking May be used for general woodworking but may be specialized for joinery, cabinetmaking, patternmaking, stairbuilding, carving, carpentry or trim work. They are usually made from solid wood and ...
Woodworking is the skill of making items from wood, and includes cabinetry, furniture making, wood carving, joinery, carpentry, and woodturning. History
The jointer derives its name from its primary function of producing flat edges on boards prior to joining them edge-to-edge to produce wider boards. The use of this term probably arises from the name of a type of hand plane, the jointer plane, which is also used primarily for this purpose.
With respect to wood joinery, this joint, where two long-grain wood faces are joined with glue, is among the strongest in ability to resist shear forces, exceeding even mortise and tenon and other commonly-known "strong" joints. [1] With respect to metal welding, this joint, made by overlapping the edges of the plate, is not recommended for ...
Frame joinery (e.g. face frames, web frames, door frames, table legs to aprons, chair legs) Cabinet carcase construction (e.g. carcase sides to top and bottom, fixed shelving/partitions) Panel assembly (for alignment) A variation of the dowel method for reinforcement is the use of a Miller dowel in place of the usual straight cylindrical dowel.