A professional who finishes, shapes, and sizes rough-cut hat blocks. Responsibilities include:

• Clamps rough-cut crown block in vise on workbench, and shaves and shapes top of block to specified contour with spokeshave.
• Removes block from vise and sets in gauge to determine height of crown.
• Judges crown of block for shape, and marks high spots to be removed.
• Sands sides of block to shape on curver sander.
• Measures block with steel tape to ascertain head size.
• Drives block onto taper chuck turning machine, using mallet.
• Starts machine and sands rotating block by hand.