Carpentry & Woodworking

[Dave Crabbs]

I am a carpenter that builds forms for concrete. I would have to say that finish carpentry is closer to woodworking then building forms.
I enclosed a picture of a job that I am working on. It is a foundation for a Bar Screen Building at a Waste Water Treatment Plant. The fat guy in the brown hard hat is me . Is this woodworking???
Dave

[steve banks]

To throw in my 2 cents, this is where my true love lies- architectual woodworking. When one is restoring a 100 year old Victorian,one has to be VERY resourcful in achieving that perfect look in pure authentic restoration. This means finding antique old growth or even virgin timber lumber to replicate anything that is missing or need of replacement. Granted I don't have the machinery to make knives for moulding replication, but alot of simple pieces I can make myself. What I can't do, I have a local specialist do it for me. This is very satisfying to take rough lumber i.e., floor joist out of a to be demolished house, and resaw it, plane it, and create an exact matching piece of historical trim that can't be destinguished from the original. This may not be fine furniture making to some, but an antique home is fine furniture to me.

[Tom Sweeney]

a post on the Neander side of BP. Some one from the North West US is /was building his workshop. He posted pics of the almost finished shop. This guy was building the entire thing using hand tools. It was a traditional Japanese building style with traditional Japanese joinery. This thing was amazing.

That is woodworking IMHO!

Does anyone remember more details about this?