Wood-butcher (tradesmen): workmen who have not thoroughly learned their business as carpenters or joiners.
Counting carpenters and wood-butchers together, it is estimated that about 20,000 men make their living in London as carpenters and joiners. Of these nearly 5300 are of the wood-butcher, or inexpert workmen class, and therefore do not belong to the trade societies. —New York Herald.
Albert Barrère & Charles Godfrey Leland
A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian Slang, Pidgin English, Tinker’s Jargon and Other Irregular Phraseology – Volume 1 – 1890
—Jeff Burks
The photo looks to be Russians in a gulag sort of environment. Or they may be prisoners of war building their prison.
It is a German photo showing the building of cattle stalls, shot in Frankfurt during the year 1958.
Only off a decade or so. thanks for the info.
I’m just thinking of the lashing one will get standing next to that belt when it breaks.
It’s now official – I have a name
This describes about 90% of the woodworking blog/forum community…
Very few of the woodworking bloggers / forum posters are tradesmen… The community you speak of is primarily composed of amateurs who are not attempting to earn their living as carpenters or joiners. Thus it would be inappropriate to refer to them as inexpert workmen. It stands to reason that they would have more skill and experience in their chosen profession.
That is definitely true and I do think most bloggers out there are blogging to share the craft, I was making a jab at the unfortunate modern trend of “Here’s a video of me doing something I learned last week from an old PWW magazine in hopes of getting some free tools.”
The majority of bloggers out there are simply sharing what they are doing or what they are learning. Most bloggers are not out there trying to earn a living, prove that they are majorly awesome, or trying to get free tools like you stated below. We are simply having fun sharing woodcraft with each other. Nothing more and nothing less. I don’t understand why you would leave a comment like this on a Bloggers site, who is not a pro, and has never had formal training. Chris has always been upfront about the fact that he too is an amateur. Which means to do something for the love of it , not for the paycheck.
Good day Sir.