The trade, as the next intake learns it
Three apprentices on what surprised them: how much of the job is setting up, and how little of it is the cut itself.
Read more: The first year in the workshopTraining pieces get thrown away; a customer's kitchen does not. Why one workshop puts apprentices on paid work from month two.
Read more: Learning on real commissionsAn 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.
Read more: The joinery that teaches as it works