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Joiner
Occupation
Activity sectors	Construction
Description
Education required	Vocational School

A joiner is an artisan who builds things by joining pieces of wood, particularly lighter and more ornamental work than that done by a carpenter, including furniture and the "fittings" of a house, ship, etc.^[1] Joiners may work in a workshop, because the formation of various joints is made easier by the use of non-portable, powered machinery, or on job site. A joiner usually produces items such as interior and exterior doors, windows, stairs, tables, bookshelves, cabinets, furniture, etc. In shipbuilding a marine joiner may work with materials other than wood such as linoleum, fiberglass, hardware, and gaskets.^[2]

The terms joinery and joiner are used in the UK, and the main trade union for American carpenters still calls itself the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.

In the UK, an apprentice of wood occupations could choose to study bench joinery or site carpentry and joinery. Bench joinery is the preparation, setting out, and manufacture of joinery components while site carpentry and joinery focus on the installation of the joinery components, and on the setting out and fabrication of timber elements used in construction.

Wood working professions

The Carpenter, a figurine by Royal Doulton. As a matter of fact the figurine practices joinery, not carpentry.

The Institute of Carpenters recognises the following professionals working in wood:

Carpenters

Furniture and Cabinet Makers

Boat builders (Woodworking Skills)

Joiners

Shopfitter

Structural Post and Beam Carpenters (Timber framing)

Heavy Wheelwrights

Wood Carvers

Wood Turners

Illustration of an 1880s joiner's shop in Germany

References

^ "joiner, n. 2. a." Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd. ed. 2009. CD-rom.

^ Canadian Classification and Dictionary of Occupations. 6th ed. Ottawa: Employment and Immigration Canada, Occupational and Career Information Branch, 1971. 756. Print.