Carpentry

Carpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc. Carpenters traditionally worked with natural wood and did rougher work such as framing, but today many other materials are also used and sometimes the finer trades of cabinetmaking and furniture building are considered carpentry. In the United States, 98.

5% of carpenters are male, and it was the fourth most male-dominated occupation in the country in 1999.
In 2006 in the United States, there were about 1.
5 million carpentry positions.

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