All About Joiners and Custom Joinery

Joiners work to create architectural woodwork, doors, windows, stairs etc. Shop and kitchen fitting also fall under the remit of a joiner providing the materials used are wood. In the USA joiners tend to be create things known as "finish carpentry" or "millwork". Joiners are more commonly known as carpenters however they are two different professions. Carpenters often create rough pieces which might not be viewed where as joiners are more finite in their skills. Joiners aim to create a piece of furniture without the use of metal or glue to hold the patch together. Instead the wood can be used to create joints which will hold over decades and more than 100 years. Various kinds of joint are; mortise and tenon, dowel joint and pocket-hole.

Even more finite still are the cabinet makers. Famous cabinet makers such as for example Thomas Chippendale produced original furniture which has not only stood the test of time because of their design but also through the quality of work. Throughout the 1700's the rich and upper class in Britain would pay for neoclassical and regency style furniture to be tailor made for them from the Chippendale workshop.

This still happens today, furniture could be designed to measure either for practical uses or even to be created being an heirloom. Made to measure furniture, or custom joinery is a thriving industry because the skills of a joiner are increasingly being lost as generations chose never to take up the profession. They often specialise in one type of furniture and master their art although most joiners are skilled to make all sorts of furniture and architectural items.

Bespoke Joiners Barrow In Furness can find two common forms of joinery, European and Japanese. Also the Chinese have already been using ways of joinery for seven thousand years which create furniture without glue or nails.