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You might want to look up carpentry, instead of woodworking. They're actually pretty different in skills and approach. It's like, with woodworking, step one is
by mr_tristan 5y ago
You might want to look up carpentry, instead of woodworking. They're actually pretty different in skills and approach.
It's like, with woodworking, step one is often "make everything perfectly square". In carpentry, nothing will ever be square. So you just have pretty different problems to solve
- defterGoose 5y agoIn construction contracting, an 1/8-1/4" tolerance is sufficient depending on the scale involved. With fine joinery, I typically find myself in the 1/32-1/16" range.
- mattbrewsbytes 5y agoI think of carpentry more like building a deck or a shed and woodworking is more of building a bench or a bookcase. Even with woodworking things end up not square and fixing/hiding those mistakes is part of the project, just using a smaller scale than carpentry.
- scotuswroteus 5y agoMan I would love to really get into either, but I have a 9-6 in the Bay Area and the one "workshop" weekend class I took was about tool use. It's really difficult to get into anything in a serious way, but any tips about somewhere in the Bay that really gets you into "carpentry" or into "woodworking" on weekends would be excellent!