Young generation
The trade, as the next intake learns it
Apprentices
The first year in the workshop
Three apprentices on what surprised them: how much of the job is setting up, and how little of it is the cut itself.
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Training pieces get thrown away; a customer's kitchen does not. Why one workshop puts apprentices on paid work from month two.
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Training workshops
The joinery that teaches as it works
An open workshop where apprentices work alongside cabinetmakers on real commissions. How the tools are shared, and what a first-year learns in the first month.
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