A professional who sets up and operates machine to shape ends of wooden parts to fit into sockets of implements, or into mortises of opposing wooden parts. Responsibilities include:

• Selects and installs cutting head, and adjusts knives, guides, and stops, according to size and shape of cuts to be made.
• Verifies distances of settings and size of stock, using rule and calipers.
• Clamps stock in feed-yoke or places stock on automatic fixture.
• Starts machine and turns handwheel to feed stock into cutting head.
• Withdraws stock when stop is reached.
• May be designated according to machine operated as double-end-chucking-machine operator.