Mike Rose brings us into the world of Carpentry through another classroom: Jerry Devries wood construction class. Rose shows how hand-tool and power-tools are part of the form of carpentry and both are equal into what is needed for a specific project. In this case, Mr. Devries kids are building storage cabinets, secretaries' station, computer tables, etc. for the high school.
Rose brings to light the precision and concentration it takes to prepare and execute a project within carpentry, and the tact used (and acquired by being mentored and repetition) of working with each tool accurately - the tool, the body, the wood, and the mechanics to make a proper cut, proper hammering, proper measurement, and so on. Disciplined perception and taking one's time is how one should work towards starting, working through, and finishing a project within carpentry. One must have experience and over time, have trained senses to know if anything is working correctly, or not.
Rose again gets in-depth with carpentry in this chapter as he did in the first chapter of waitress's. The group wondered why he was so focused on certain chapter as opposed to others. It seems that Rose is writing in the manner that the job calls for: Waitressing has many elements and is fast-paced, but needs small attention to detail, as well as carpentry. The chapters of hair-styling and plumbing seemed to have more a social dynamic to them as well as an understanding to know what a customer wants (hairstyling) or how to trouble-shoot a problem without jumping to assuming what the first problem is and making a mistake through guidance (plumbing). Even-though the group found this interesting we agreed that there is too much dramatics in Rose showing how important the language/ vocabulary of carpentry is because we thought that many jobs have their own language (IE- waitressing and "getting slammed" or going through "the rush", or even a lawyer, doctor, scientist, hair-stylist, etc. all have their own vocabulary). It is these sub-topics that really don't work well within the book in order to give an extra high-light to a certain occupation. If Rose came out with another edition of this book I would hope he would delete about five to ten pages from each chapter (thus far) because the book seems over-written.
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