Skills & Practical Building
Carpentry
Joinery, framing, tool maintenance, and the judgment calls that separate a structure that lasts twenty years from one that lasts two hundred.
Two people can use the same tools, cut the same joint, and end up with structures that age completely differently. The difference is judgment — knowing which corners a building can actually afford to cut, and which ones it can't.
Joinery that holds on its own, without leaning on hardware to fake it. Framing built so the load paths actually work, quietly, for decades. Tool maintenance treated as a daily ritual — five minutes now beats an afternoon later. This module teaches carpentry at the level where a twenty-year structure and a two-hundred-year one start out looking almost identical.
Full write-up coming — diagrams, material specs, and the joinery methods actually used on the Academy's own builds.