The carpenter is a worker in wood. He makes chairs,
tables, wooden beds, and almirah for the home use and ploughs and carts for the
farmers. Builders have to employ carpenters to make door, window- frames,
floors and beams for the roof, when they are building houses.
A carpenter must have a lot of tools. He wants saws
for cutting the wood into pieces, sharp chisels and axes to cut it, a plane to
make it smooth, a lathe or turning-table to make it round, and hammers and
nails to fasten pieces of wood together.
The work of a carpenter is skilled labor. It takes
a long time to learn to do the work properly. A carpenter has to use his tools
he has to have a good eye for correct measurement and he has to think about his
work. Before he can make even a chair he must have the plan of the chair in his
mind, and the skill to make it according to his plan. In Pakistan, the art of
doing carpenter’s work is taught to the sons by the fathers for the son of a
carpenter generally becomes a carpenter in his turn.
It is a great thing to take pride in the work one
has to do. And an honest, clever and hard-working carpenter can take an honest
pride in making good, solid and beautiful things. It is not enough to make a table;
the carpenter who takes a pride in his work will want to make a strong, solid,
shapely table that will be useful for many years and that will look good and
sound.
In short a carpenter is a very useful and important
worker in the society. It is the carpenter who makes furniture for us and decoration
our houses. He make different things for our comforts. He has to work hard. He
works from dawn to dash but despite it he lives a hard life. He is bound to work hard.