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A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of cabinetmakers engaged in constructing and repairing wooden cabinets and high-grade furniture, performing duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates variety of woodworking machines and uses various handtools to fabricate and repair wooden cabinets and high-grade furniture. Responsibilities include:
* Studies blueprints or drawings of articles to be constructed or repaired, and plans sequence of cutting or shaping operations to be performed.
* Marks outline or dimensions of parts on paper or lumber stock, according to blueprint or drawing specifications.
* Matches materials for color, grain, or texture.
* Sets up and operates woodworking machines, such as power saws, jointer, mortiser, tenoner, molder, and shaper, to cut and shape parts from woodstock.
* Trims component parts of joints to ensure snug fit, using handtools, such as planes, chisels, or wood files.
* Bores holes for insertion of screws or dowels by hand or using boring machine.
* Glues, fits, and clamps parts and subassemblies together to form complete unit, using clamps or clamping machine.
* Drives nails or other fasteners into joints at designated places to reinforce joints.
* Sands and scrapes surfaces and joints of articles to prepare articles for finishing.
* May repair high-grade articles of furniture.
* May dip, brush, or spray assembled articles with protective or decorative materials, such as stain, varnish, or paint.
* May install hardware, such as hinges, catches, and drawer pulls.
* May repair furniture, equipment, and fixtures and be designated maintenance cabinetmaker.
* May be designated according to products made as piano-case maker.
* May cut, shape, and assemble wooden parts to construct frames for refrigeration equipment and be designated refrigerator cabinetmaker (svc.
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Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations concerned with laying out, cutting, building, and fashioning wooden patterns.
* Includes following blueprints to achieve proper dimensions of a pattern, and any combination of gluing, nailing, severing, planing, sanding, and painting.
* A patternmaker would use a variety of machines, such as bandsaw, circular saw, borer, router, planer, drill press, sander, and shaper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in laying out and constructing templates and molds used as patterns and guides for fabrication of structural parts of ship, performing duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in machining and building sample furniture frames and patterns. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes production forms to verify accuracy of figures and to estimate cost factors, such as raw materials and production time, using calculator.
* Studies blueprints to determine style, type, and dimensions of sample frames and patterns to be fabricated.
* Directs activities of workers in machining operations.
* Inspects completed units for compliance with specifications of blueprints and production order, using precision-measuring tools.
* Initiates changes or adjustments in machine setup or sequence of operations, utilizing knowledge of woodworking and engineering.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who lays out and cuts wooden furniture patterns following blueprints, specifications, or drawings, using handtools and woodworking machines. Responsibilities include:
* Consults blueprints, drawings, or written specifications to determine size and shape of pattern and machine setup required to cut pattern to specifications.
* Draws outline of pattern on stock with drawing instruments or transfers outline to stock by tracing over drawing on woodstock, using pencil.
* Sets up and operates woodworking machines, such as bandsaw, variety saw, planer, shaper, borer, lathe, router, or mortiser to cut, shape, and smooth pattern to specified shape.
* Measures and compares cut pattern with specifications, using rule and caliper.
* Adjusts woodworking machines to change shape or size of cut pattern to ensure cut stock conforms to drawings and specifications, using various handtools.
* Marks part number on pattern, using hand stamp or marking pencil, and maintains record of patterns for references.
* Issues patterns to designated machine operators.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who lays out lines of ship to full scale on mold-loft floor and constructs templates and molds to be used as patterns and guides for layout and fabrication of various structural parts of ships. Responsibilities include:
* Lays out full-scale portions of ship's plan, working from blueprints and tables of offsets.
* Marks frame lines and other reference lines on loft floor with marking instrument.
* Measures dimensions between lines and prepares table of offsets.
* Compares prepared tables with tables on blueprints.
* Constructs template, using knowledge of geometric construction, and handtools and woodworking machines, such as crosscut, rip, and bandsaws.
* Marks templates with identifying data and instructions, such as number of pieces to be made, type, and weight of stock, and location for installation.
* Constructs full scale wood mockups of ship's parts and sections for use as guide in shaping or positioning parts.
* May construct wooden plug mold parts, such as hulls, decks, and cabins of fiberglass boats, and be designated plug builder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
