Had to laugh reading an article from Fine Homebuilding.  Emphases mine

 

"Finish carpentry makes the eye work hard and skip over imperfections. At this point, the framing carpenter has made the house plumb, level and square. Or not. A good framer can ease the finish carpenter’s job by providing plumb walls and plenty of blocking for nailers for attaching trim. Or not. But even if the framer couldn’t read a level and and even if he added no more blocking than was absolutely necessary, the finish carpenter’s job is to make the doors, windows and cabinets work, and to make the house look good."

 

It is said that the framer works to the nearest 1/4",  The trim carpenter to the nearest 1/16", the cabinetmaker to the nearest 1/32" and the boat builder to the nearest boat.

 

When I first started working at the furniture bank, one of the guys there called us "carpenters."   I had to correct him and say we were "woodworkers," not "carpenters."    I find that's a better term than "cabinetmaker" who then assumes you work on kitchen cabinets or "joiner" of which they have no idea what you do.

There's a show on HGTV (maybe, can't remember) called "Woodwork". It features a woodworker in Waco TX that appears often on the Fixer-Upper show. Anyway, he wrangled his own show out of it, and both his show and the Fixer Upper show refer to him as a carpenter". The stuff he does for the 2 shows are often architectural pieces (mantles, built ins, etc.) but he occassionally builds a table or other piece for the house.

I occasionally saw some of those "house flippers" prior to the 2008 debacle.   I noticed they never showed close ups of the work they did by the "pros" working under a tent in the driveway.   And the rank amateurs who were going to flip a house in 6 weeks and make a fortune that both didn't know what they were doing and found things like termites or mold in the joists, sagging foundations, "what's a load-bearing wall??" etc. etc. and 9-12 months later were struggling to get it done.

I never had a problem being called a cabinet maker or a furniture maker but don't call me a woodworker....

 

Now after work hours and and your buying the beers.. its ok.....

Edited October 31, 20196 yr by BillyJack

You can call me anything but late for dinner.

 

There was a description of the different skill sets in "woodworking" as a whole somewhere on the internet.

I keep it real. I am a woodbutcher.

 

 

I believe I'm a member of that club.

I'm a knuckle head.

I just putter along...

 

Unless you are getting paid for a job, titles don't really mean a thing....

Edited October 31, 20196 yr by steven newman

I am a manufacturer of fine sawdust and firewood.

2 hours ago, steven newman said:

I just putter along...

 

Unless you are getting paid for a job, titles don't really mean a thing....

Didn't know you were a golfer!

6 hours ago, Artie said:

I am a manufacturer of fine sawdust and firewood.

Now we know who the president of the club is.  It's you, Artie.  I'm just a fledgling member.  

According to TPW, I'm a gopher.  But I've known that for 55 years.

Jim