A professional who tends machine equipped with circular diamond saw that cuts abrasive sticks and stones for honing machines. Responsibilities include:

• Places abrasive bricks (blocks) against guide and clamps bricks onto holding fixture of machine.
• Starts machine and flow of coolant.
• Presses button to start feed mechanism that moves brick against diamond saw to cut abrasive sticks of specified dimensions.
• Measures cut stick, using micrometer.
• Removes burrs from stick, using file made of same material.
• May tend diamond saw to trim crust from abrasive brick to expose material for hardness testing.