mr brown
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Weren’t joiners then….It's called scribing. It's what joiners should do when fitting skirting boards to a solid wood floor, for example - but don't. Or at least didn't in ours because it takes time, skill and attention to detail.
loved working in the yard.Short brothers airplane factory was next to the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. A guy who worked on the assembly line of the aircraft was boasting to his mate. “When we build an airplane, we work to one thou accuracy”.
His mate who was a welder in the shipyard just laughed, “when we build a ship, everything has to be dead on”.
Davy
Quite. We ordered lengths of kick board for the kitchen units they were fitting in the new build. A long bit for the long stretch in front of the window, 2 shorter bits for other units - just needing trimming to size. What did he do? He cut the long bit to fit in one of the shorter sections and joined a short length to the remains of the long length he'd cut for the units in front of the window. Unbelievable!!Weren’t joiners then….
An engineer was talking to a tarmac layer. The engineer said "in my job I have to work to tolerances of thousandths of an inch"Whats the difference between a joiner, a carpenter and a cabinet maker.
A cabinet maker works to a hundredth of an inch.
A carpenter works to a tenth of an inch.
A joiner works to the nearest house.