A professional who tends sanding machine that sands cylindrical woodstock by rotating stock against strips of sandpaper backed by sanding brushes. Responsibilities include:

• Turns handwheel to space chucks of machine according to length of stock, and aligns feed rest for feeding stock to stock carriers, using wrench.
• Clamps strips of slitted sandpaper and sanding brushes in position.
• Pushes button to start machine.
• Places stock on feed rest for pick up by rotating spindles or positions stocks between chucks manually.
• Observes and feels stock discharged from machine into receptacle to verify smoothness, or removes stock from chucks manually.
• Cleans machine with airhose.
• May move levers to adjust feed carrier and rotating chucks, and to force sanding brushes against stock.
• May tend sanding machine that removes excess plaster of paris from corncob pipe bowls and be designated bowl sander.