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Carpenter (other)
A carpenter is a person who engages in carpentry, the craft of woodworking. Carpenter or Carpenters may also refer to: Music * The Carpenters, a musical group ** Carpenters (album), ''Carpenters'' (album), 1971 album by the Carpenters * The Carpenters (violinists), three siblings who play the violin Places United States * Carpenter, Alabama * Carpenter Valley, California * Carpenter, Colorado, a ghost town * Carpenter, Delaware * Carpenter Park, an Illinois Nature Preserve * Carpentersville, Illinois * Carpenter Township, Jasper County, Indiana * Carpentersville, Indiana * Carpenter, Iowa * Carpenter, Kentucky * Carpenter Township, Itasca County, Minnesota * Carpenter, Mississippi * Carpenter Creek, Montana * Carpenter's Bar, Montana * Carpenter Canyon, in Clark County, Nevada * Carpentersville, New Jersey * Carpenter, Bernalillo County, New Mexico * Carpenter, Grant County, New Mexico, a ghost town * Carpenter's Point, New York * Carpenter, North Carolina * Carpenter Historic Dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carpenter
Carpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, Shipbuilding, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc. Carpenters traditionally worked with natural wood and did rougher work such as framing, but today many other materials are also used and sometimes the finer trades of cabinetmaking and furniture building are considered carpentry. In the United States, 98.5% of carpenters are male, and it was the fourth most male-dominated occupation in the country in 1999. In 2006 in the United States, there were about 1.5 million carpentry positions. Carpenters are usually the first tradesmen on a job and the last to leave. Carpenters normally framed post-and-beam buildings until the end of the 19th century; now this old-fashioned carpentry is called timber framing. Carpenters learn this trade by being employed through an apprenticeship training—normally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
