Joiner

For other uses, see Joiner (disambiguation).

A joiner is a type of a carpenter that cuts and fits joints in wood without the use of nails, screws, or other metal fasteners.^{citation needed} Joiners usually work in a workshop since the formation of various joints generally requires non-portable machinery. A carpenter normally works on site. Cabinet makers who specialise in manufacturing furniture are regarded as producing fine joinery.

The "joinery" and "joiner" usage is obsolete in the USA, although the main carpenters' trade union still calls itself the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.

A "joiner" would generally produce items such as interior and exterior doors, windows, stairs, tables, bookshelves etc.

In the UK a wood occupations apprentice could choose to study Bench Joinery or Site Carpentry and Joinery. Bench Joinery being the preparation, setting out and manufacture of joinery components. Site Carpentry and Joinery focuses on the setting out and fabrication of timber elements of construction and installation of the joinery components. On site the carpentry can be roughly designated to the timber work installed before the plasterer does his work and joinery can be seen as that timber work installed or fitted after.

The Institute of Carpenters recognises the following professionals working in wood

• Carpenters
• Furniture & Cabinet Makers
• Boat builders (Woodworking Skills)
• Joiners
• Shopfitter
• Structural Post & Beam Carpenters
• Heavy Wheelwrights
• Wood Carvers
• Wood Turners

See also

• Jointer, a woodworking tool used to flatten boards so that they may be attached or joined

External links

• Institute of Carpenters
• [1] British Woodworking Federation not for profit woodworking body advice on joinery in the UK