Doormaking and Window-Making

by Anonymous You can download an excerpt from this book here. As the Industrial Revolution mechanized the jobs of the joiner – building doors and windows by hand – one anonymous joiner watched the traditional skills disappear and decided to do something about it. That joiner wrote two short illustrated booklets that explained how to build doors and windows by hand. And what was most unusual about the booklets was that they focused on the basics of construction, from layout to joinery to construction – for both doors and windows. Plenty of books exist on building windows and doors, but most of them assume you have had a seven-year apprenticeship and don’t need to know the basic skills of the house joiner. Or the doors and windows these books describe are impossibly complex or ornamental. “Doormaking and Window-Making” starts you off at the beginning, with simple tools and assemblies; then it moves you step-by-step into the more complex doors and windows. Every step in the layout and con