Carpenter
A carpenter is a person who works with wood. They can make cabinets, build houses, or do other things with wood.
Carpenters usually make very good foremen (people who watch over a job) on larger jobs as they deal with so much of the project from ground up. Carpenters are always adding to their tools and always learning how to use the new tools, materials, and ways of working with wood.
Many carpenters will choose to focus their skills in one of two broad ranging categories. Rough carpenters will focus on building things that need to be simple and structural. This includes framing for houses, or crates for shipping. Finish carpenters will focus on things that are detailed and artistic. For example, they can be furniture builders, cabinet makers or toy makers. Wood carvers are sometimes counted as carpenters.
Carpenter Media
Carpentry includes such specialties as barrelmaker, cabinetmaker, framer, luthier, and ship's carpenter
Carpenter handling a plank used in scaffolding
Exhibit of traditional European carpenter's tools in Italy
Carpenters in an Indian village working with hand tools
Log church building in Russia reached considerable heights such as this 17th century example
Axonometric diagram of balloon framing
Breve compendio de la carpinteria de lo blanco y tratado de alarifes (1727)
The Centre Pompidou-Metz museum under construction in Metz, France in 2009. The building possesses one of the most complex examples of carpentry built to date and is composed of 16 kilometers of glued laminated timber for a surface area of 8,000 m2.
