[gleeaikin]

If he was a builder then his material was probably stone as wood was in short supply in the middle east. Carpenters would have been building doors and windows, and furnishings. Even today, 80% of the world population lives in stone built houses.

[uglybiker]

If he was a builder then his material was probably stone as wood was in short supply in the middle east. Carpenters would have been building doors and windows, and furnishings.

Which might imply that one who worked in stone might also work in wood.

Also, a stonemason, even at that time, was a craft which required a lenghty appreticeship.