D&D 5E Carpenter's vs. Woodcarver's

[MarkB]

Here is a woodcarver* at work:

*Not a witch. Too many unsatisfied customers.

And also some good examples of the differences between the two. The table has not been subjected to any woodcarving. The figurine on the table has not been subjected to any carpentry.

 

[Guest 6801328]

The crossover will be with things like furniture and decorative objects (like statues for example).

Furniture would be a Cabinetmaker, and would be saws (although different from carpenter's saws), chisels, planes, and marking/measuring tools.

Although, yes, some furniture also has decorative carvings.

 

[Claudiu Florea]

As a woodcarver at the school a learned everything about woodworks:carpentery and joynery but my diploma is woodcarver so I can't work like a carpenter with my diploma iven if I worked all my life like a carpenter!!

 

[Claudiu Florea]

A did everything it have link with wood ,starting with smallest think made of wood to houses structures

 

[schnee]

^^^

Yeah, woodcarving is removing material from one piece of wood down.

Carpentry is joining with many pieces of wood together to build up.

 

[Elon Tusk]

So do Mason's tools do both artistry (woodcarving) and putting together (carpentry) aspects of stone?
If so, why do woodworkers require 2 sets of tools?

 

[schnee]

Good question. I think the answer is one of two ways:

1) A new skill called 'Sculptor' that's the equivalent of 'Woodcarver'. So, four skills.

2) Mashing the 'Woodcarver' and 'Carpenter' together into one called 'Woodworking'. So, two skills.

 

[Tony Vargas]

Long ago, everyone who made things out of wood was united, then, at some point, a schism formed, and the carpenters and woodworkers fought a horrible civil war.

Ever since then, the two factions do not acknowledge nor use eachothers' tools.

The tools and the skills to use them are not readily distinguishable to outsiders, so be very careful when discussing the subject around them...

 

[Caliban]

Long ago, everyone who made things out of wood was united,

...but then everything changed when the Cooper Nation attacked.

 

[Mad_Jack]

As mentioned, the real point of carpenter's tools is to take multiple pieces of wood and shape and join them together to build something.
A woodcarver's tools are meant to take a single piece of wood and change the shape of it.

You could use carpenter's tools to make decorative woodwork or shape a longbow out of a yew branch, but they'd be extremely unwieldy for that sort of smaller, finer work. Conversely, you could use woodcarver's tools to build a house or chair, but it's going to take a lot longer since most of those tools aren't designed for the sort of gross manipulation of material that is basic carpentry.