A professional who tends one or more machines that shape smoking pipe bowls and shanks. Responsibilities include:

• Places pipe bowl over chuck and turns nut or moves lever to expand chuck against inside of bowl, using wrench.
• Starts machine that automatically rotates bowl against cutters to remove excess briar.
• Removes shaped pipes from machines.
• May turn handwheel to rotate bowl against cutters.
• May tend machine that cuts and shapes only bottom of smoking pipe bowl.