What exactly is a finishing carpenter? How would one go about becoming one?
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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.
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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.
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.
they install the doors and trim , check your local vocational school for apprenticeship programs available
finish carpenter aka trim guy......they install the baseboards, set the doors, crown molding, trim the windows.....all trim
lic. gen. contractor
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.
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