"I work at a cabinet shop, Rick.
"He's become a professional woodworker, doing joinery at a high-end cabinet shop".
When he was not drafted, he worked at a marble company and then a cabinet shop.
Currently, Mr. Schlemowitz is "bunking in with another cabinet shop to complete a project," he said.
"I enjoyed the cabinet shop," Ms. Foss recalled, "but I'd seen accidents.
The earlier factories often had a cabinet shop, which had its rows of benches for individual work; a cabinetmaker needing machining done carried his wood to the machinist.
For deeper marks or chips, he said, a matching wood putty (less than $5 iss fine, or the door or drawer can be taken to a cabinet shop to match it to a touch-up kit (about $30).
At one point in the early 1990's, he said, he worked at a Manhattan cabinet shop owned by two men who sat above the work area in an air-conditioned, glass-enclosed aerie.
So, in 1958, Doyle quit his job as an apprentice in a cabinet shop, and he and his mother took the overnight boat to Tasmania, where they spent a month trudging around the back roads of the island, going from one Seventh-Day Adventist church to the next.
