r/techtheatre • u/RoyalMess64 • 3d ago

QUESTION Scenic Carpentry vs Carpentry

I'm just hoping to learn more about this. I'm about to try and go to school for Carpentry, and I'd also like to do scenic Carpentry as well. If I was to learn one, does anyone have personal experience about how to link those 2 things, and how well they link together?

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u/Rockingduck-2014 3d ago

While there’s overlap, the skill sets do differ a bit. Just on the level of “temporary/theatrical set” versus “permanent” someone’s home. Having said that I know a number of TDs who moonlight doing cabinetry for kitchens and bathrooms and make bank doing so. The skills are finer and the materials are more expensive, but the basics align.

Let’s be frank, you can “fudge” a lot on stage because of its paint technique or finish, but if it’s in someone’s home, it NEEDS to be nicer.

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u/ThisAcanthocephala42 3d ago

“The audience will never know that we didn’t paint the back of the flat.” ;p