Thread: Carpentry for Boys

Great way to preserve what's becoming a dying art & craft.
Even into the mid 1970's I met people who were taking on the challenge of building their own house.
Nearly all of it here is wood frame construction. Cheap & no termites.

I got a couple of years of "manual training" in highschool, drafting plans and shop wood work.
Had I stuck it out to Gr 12, I would have been framing sheds with rafters.
In some respects, I regret that I didn't stay with it (other elective courses in its place).
but it all came too early in life. I was pushing 35-40 when I needed to use what I had learned
and rather quickly forgotten.

Robson Valley, if I may say, you make a great contribution here with your posts. Thank you, Bill.

It is amazing how older books went from real basic stuff straight into building a house. Old knitting books have how to knit and purl, then stright into the most complicated patterns you have ever seen. Modern books are so dumbed down.

Originally Posted by From the introduction to the book

But the carpenter must, in order to be an expert, combine all these qualifications, in a greater or less degree, and his vocation may justly be called the King of Trades.

I wonder if other trades have the same opinion of themsleves?