Mike wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a training system for becomming a
> journeyman woodoworker?
> Is it easy to get into?
> Maybe I'm just looking for general information on the career path for
> professional woodworking.
Daepends on where you're going with this. I don't know of any
formalized apprenticeship program for cabinetry in this country. My BIL
did his aprenticeship in Denmark.
Dave in Fairfax
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Dave in Fairfax notes:
>Mike wrote:
>> Does anyone know if there is a training system for becomming a
>> journeyman woodoworker?
>> Is it easy to get into?
>> Maybe I'm just looking for general information on the career path for
>> professional woodworking.
>
>Daepends on where you're going with this. I don't know of any
>formalized apprenticeship program for cabinetry in this country. My BIL
>did his aprenticeship in Denmark.
Mike Maxwell has a furniture making apprenticeship in Bedford, VA. He's an
award winning maker and designer, runs Maxwell Furniture. maxwellfurniture.com
Charlie Self
"Health food makes me sick." Calvin Trillin
http://hometown.aol.com/charliediy/myhomepage/business.html
In article <2004021715542716807%Nothing@nowhere>,
Mike <Nothing@nowhere> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Does anyone know if there is a training system for becomming a
>journeyman woodoworker?
>Is it easy to get into?
>
>Maybe I'm just looking for general information on the career path for
>professional woodworking.
Depends on what you mean by "woodworking", and where you are.
In the United States, "Carpentry" is a recognized trade, and there is
a union training/apprenticeship program, for the construction industry.
Specializations in 'rough carpentry' and 'finish carpentry'. Some
'vocational' high-schools offer coordinated training.
"Furniture making", and/or "cabinet making", is a whole 'nuther story.
You have the 'factory' production-line operations, and the 'custom' shops.
Speaking only about the U.S, there isn't any standardized program that
addresses this kind of work. The 'technical high school' in the town
I grew up in *did* have a 'furniture factory' program, where they taught
serious furniture-making -- big shop ( the furniture factory alone was
20,000+ sq ft), big power (the building had its own substation), *big*
equipment (e.g. multi-cutter dovetail machine that could do a _ten_foot_
long joint in a single cut -- one of only a few high-schools (that I'm aware
of) in the country that did so.
Try your local vo-tech school, they often have a career path in
woodworking or cabinet making available
John
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:54:27 -0800, Mike <Nothing@nowhere> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Does anyone know if there is a training system for becomming a
>journeyman woodoworker?
>Is it easy to get into?
>
>Maybe I'm just looking for general information on the career path for
>professional woodworking.
>
>Regards,
http://www.nbss.org/programs/furnitureMaking.html
"Mike" <Nothing@nowhere> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know if there is a training system for becomming a
> journeyman woodoworker?
> Is it easy to get into?
>
> Maybe I'm just looking for general information on the career path for
> professional woodworking.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Mike
>