This book provides the apprentice or trainee carpenter and joiner with the basic technical knowledge necessary to complete the first half of a City and Guilds Course in Carpentry and Joinery. It will also be a useful reference to any persons studying for examinations, or simply wishing to further their knowledge in one of the associated areas, such as wood machining, cabinet making or general building construction. Dealing with the basic skills and techniques employed in the present day construction industry, the text assumes little prior knowledge of the subject, but lays before the reader a simple, straight forward and readable out of the skills, tools, materials and methods likely to be used or encountered in the workshop, on site or during studies at home or in college.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Hand Tools and Equipment 2. Timber 3. Basic Joints and Adhesives 4. Workshop Drawings, Calculations and Geometry 5. Doors, Frames and Linings 6. Traditional Casement Windows 7. Centres and Formwork 8. Timber Ground Floors 9. Constructions of Single Roofs 10. First and Second Fixing 11. Machine Woodmaking 12. Safety at Work Index

Complementing Book 1of the same title, this text takes the student up to the City and Guilds full Craft Certificate level. All aspects of the course are dealt with, along with the associated scientific background, mathematical calculations and drawings required. Although prior knowledge of the subject as provided in Book 1 is assumed , important principles are repeated so that this book can be read independently of the companion volume. Extensively illustrated, each chapter begins with clearly defined objectives and concludes with a series or questions and assignments. The text will prove invaluable as a general workbook for those following advanced woodworking courses, including CITB students and self-employed carpenters, joiner and builders. It is useful supplementary reading for those taking courses in brickwork and cabinetmaking, for trainee woodworking machinists and construction technicians as well as for students of City and Guilds Foundation courses.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Partitions 2. Timber Upper Floors 3. Timber Roofs 4. Doors and Door Frames 5. Windows 6. Stairways 7. Calculations 8. Portable Power Tools and Machines 9. Formwork, Centres and Shoring 10. Applied Geometry 11. Joinery Fitments and Wall Panelling 12. Site work 13. Maintenance and Repair Work Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Index