ABOUT Joiners and Custom Joinery

Joiners work to create architectural woodwork, doors, windows, stairs etc. Shop and kitchen fitting also are categorized as the remit of a joiner providing the materials used are wood. In america joiners tend to be create things referred to as "finish carpentry" or "millwork". Joiners are more commonly known as carpenters nonetheless they are two different professions. Carpenters often create rough pieces which might not be looked at where as joiners tend to be more finite within their skills. Joiners try to create a piece of furniture without the use of metal or glue to carry the piece together. Instead the wood is used to create joints that will hold over decades and hundreds of 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 Thomas Chippendale produced original furniture which has not merely stood the test of time due to their design but also through the grade of work. Through the entire 1700's the rich and upper class in Britain would purchase neoclassical and regency style furniture to be custom made for them from the Chippendale workshop.

This still happens today, furniture could be designed to measure either for practical uses or to be created as an heirloom. Designed to measure furniture, or custom joinery is a thriving industry because the skills of a joiner are being lost as generations chose not 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 types of furniture and architectural items.

There are two common types of joinery, European and Japanese. Also  Staircases Barrow  have already been using ways of joinery for seven thousand years which create furniture without glue or nails.