Carpentry

King End of Caption End of this section Artisans and Craftsmen Numerous objects recovered at Jamestown are extremely important as they reveal the kinds of craftsmen and artisans who worked in Virginia's first capital, the nature of their tools and equipment, and examples of their handiwork.

THE CARPENTER scores of tools used by the men who helped build the jamestown houses have been unearthed including chisels augers gouges hammers reamers saw fragments bits axes and hatchets plain blades gimlets files calipers compasses scribers nail pulls and a saw rest a grindstone was found in a refuse pit not far from the historic church tower the cooper some tools used by the cooper including draw shaves adzes plain irons and race knives have been excavated several barrel staves probably made at jamestown were found in a few wells because of the great demand for barrels casks and hogsheads both in virginia and england the jamestown cooper was a busy artisan HIS PRODUCTS WERE NEEDED AT ALL TIMES, ESPECIALLY AFTER 1620, WHEN THE VIRGINIA SETTLERS BEGAN SHIPPING LARGE QUANTITIES OF TOBACCO TO ENGLAND IN WOODEN HOG'S HEADS.

ILLUSTRATION CAPTION TIMBERING ONE OF THE FIRST ENGLISH INDUSTRIES IN THE NEW WORLD PAINTING BY SYDNEY E.

KING END OF CAPTION ILLUSTRATION CAPTION AN EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY TWO-MAN CROSS-CUT SAW END OF CAPTION THE WOOD-CUTTER AND SAWYER Numerous tools found on Jamestown Island relate to timbering, including felling axes, hewing axes, hatchets, saws, and wedges.

yeah i had a i had a great reference yeah um but when i got there i started working in the carpentry exterior maintenance department and so i did that for a year and then what

kind of jobs did you do

that was a lot of that see and this is the funny thing that was like a really random thing so there were two departments that were they were run by the same person even though they were kind of separate so carpentry was one exterior maintenance was the other and Carpentry was the like fixing furniture, reupholstering things, fixing bunk beds, walls, all of all of the interior construction that would happen on a college campus that was handled by that group.

And there was also a big building project that was kind of happening at the college at that time that I helped with some.

But then the exterior maintenance was the outside of the building.

KING Artisans and Craftsmen Numerous objects recovered at Jamestown are extremely important as they reveal the kinds of craftsmen and artisans who worked in Virginia's first capital, the nature of their tools and equipment, and examples of their handiwork.

THE CARPENTER scores of tools used by the men who helped build the jamestown houses have been unearthed including chisels augers gouges hammers reamers saw fragments bits axes and hatchets plain blades gimlets files calipers compasses scribers nail pulls and a saw rest a grindstone was found in a refuse pit not far from the historic church tower the cooper.

Some tools used by the cooper, including draw-shaves, adzes, plain-irons, and race-knives, have been excavated.

Several barrel-staves, probably made at Jamestown, were found in a few wells.

Numerous objects recovered at Jamestown are extremely important as they reveal the kinds of craftsmen and artisans who worked in Virginia's first capital, the nature of their tools and equipment, and examples of their handiwork.

The Carpenter.

Scores of tools used by the men who helped build the Jamestown houses have been unearthed, including chisels, augers, gouges, hammers, reamers, saw fragments, bits, axes and hatchets, plane blades, gimlets, files, calipers, compasses, scribers, nail pulls, and a saw rest.

A grindstone was found in a refuse pit not far from the historic church tower.