A professional who operates skiving machine to round and groove rectangular, hollow, wooden blanks to shape parts for rifles and shotguns. Responsibilities include:

• Mounts blank between front and tail mandrels and locks tailstock to secure workpiece.
• Starts machine to rotate blank.
• Turns handcrank to feed skiving knives into workpiece until lug stops are reached, indicating end of cut.
• Reverses handcrank to withdraw knives.
• Moves lever to bring cutters down to trim and face ends.
• Examines finished piece for imperfections, such as cracks, knots, and broken ends.
• Measures length and diameter of slide handles and depth of grooves, using fixed gauges.