A professional who sets up and operates machine to saw, bore, and round ends of chair posts, rails, and backs. Responsibilities include:

• Turns handwheel to adjust space between chucks and saws.
• Installs cutterheads according to size of stock and angle of cut and spaces boring bits according to specified location of holes, using handtools.
• Turns knobs to adjust feed stops.
• Pushes button to start machine.
• Positions material and depresses pedal to activate mechanism to saw, bore, and shape material or feeds woodstock into machine that automatically clamps, saws, bores, and rounds ends of woodstock.
• Starts machine and feeds woodstock into machine that automatically clamps and processes it.