"No offense to the truly good cabinetmakers out there in the US... but my experience is that they are FEW and FAR BETWEEN..."
as a heavy construction superintendent, a career builder, I hate to say it, but this dissolution of skills, the utter depletion of the talent pool is alarming..even in rough carpentry...form carpentry, even rough framing...I can honestly say, without exaggeration, that fewer than 1 in 20 alleged "carpenters" have even rudimentary carpentry skills. Somehow, people pass themselves off by doing things by rote, emulating the work of those around them..our blue collar workforce has become a largely illiterate, non English speaking, untrained, and uncaring automatons, who don't have enough of a working concept of what the trade is to care about the integrity of it... the skill of LISTENING is indeed a lost art in the American workforce... is that even the right terminology for it any more?.... the craftsmanship required to execute such designs requires a comprehensive grasp of the trade, the tools and equipment at ones disposal, and the ability to listen, HEAR, and perform abstract reasoning...good luck, friend...
