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@shoarthing
robin - Hi - you seem to have got good pretty steers on this: I can tell you from firsthand experience [I was a foreman cabinetmaker in a London shop] that becoming a proper cabinetmaker/furniture maker of the 'old school' is pretty tough nowadays - there are very few if any real apprenticeships because there are very few if any sizeable workshops doing much handwork.
The London trade has pretty well disappeared & what's left is a slew of small workshops all over the country - mostly one-man-bands or small partnerships. Most of the folk running these workshops [if young-ish] will themselves be likely to have attended some sort of course rather than to have been apprenticed in a reasonably-sized cabinetmaker/furnituremaker 'shop.
I'd suggest that welding was the way forwards for you with your [obvious] interest in bikes, which pretty obviously are examples of welding & brazing at about as high-end as these skills get.
Welding courses are relatively easy to find & the actual skills are fairly simple & transferable . . . IMO high-end brazing is as much an art as a skill anyway.
Much of what you'd learn if formally taught is understanding jigs & their design & making, plus getting the obvious grounding in materials & tools.
Whatever you decide, have fun . . . . .