2006-08-31 07:29:33 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Decorating & Remodeling
The guy you see working on bridges and highways with a sledge hammer and hatchet setting concrete forms is not a carpenter, although he calls himself one. He is a wood butcher who wouldn't have a clue about how to lay out stairs. A true finish carpenter is a rare commodity. If you are building a upper end home, your mill work, that's cabinets and all you wood trim is pretty expensive. If you miss cut just by as little as a 1/6 of an inch it really shows up. A good trim carpenter doesn't use caulk. Actually the proper term for a finish carpenter is millwright. Although some think a millwright just sets equipment and conveyor belts and things. The term millwright Geo's back hundreds of years. I'm retired and build furniture as a hobby. Some times to get a proper fit I use a mitre gage to set my router. For a good job any kind of gap looks like a gaping hole. A GOOD finish carpenter is so much more then a carpenter.
2006-08-31 11:49:19 · answer #1 · answered by c321arty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-05 07:01:15 · answer #2 · answered by Tamara 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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What exactly is a finishing carpenter? How would one go about becoming one?
2015-08-02 04:01:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a finishing carpenter does the fine work, typically associated with the end of production. First become a carpenter, either in school or on the job training, then hire on with a good finishing carpenter and learn from them.
2006-08-31 07:36:35 · answer #4 · answered by hikerboy3 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Trim Carpenter is the proper term- he installs all the Trim in the home, including the shelf and pole work in closets, doors , door trim , window trim, baseboard, chair rail, and sometimes hangs kitchen cabinets. In smalltowns a Carpenter might do both the Framing and Trim.
2006-08-31 09:15:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What Is Finish Carpentry
2016-11-15 04:39:56 · answer #6 · answered by manger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
up here where i ilve you get hired as a framer and then after some experience move into trimming...go to a local vocational school ..most have carpentry programs
2006-08-31 10:25:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
finish carpenter aka trim guy......they install the baseboards, set the doors, crown molding, trim the windows.....all trim
lic. gen. contractor
2006-08-31 08:18:45 · answer #8 · answered by bigg_dogg44 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they install the doors and trim , check your local vocational school for apprenticeship programs available
2006-08-31 07:57:13 · answer #9 · answered by Joe M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋