A professional who sets up and operates machines to cut and shape bottom of smoking pipe bowls. Responsibilities include:

• Sharpens trimming machine knives, using grinding wheel.
• Inserts and secures knives in cutterhead of trimming machine, using wrench.
• Positions and secures clamp and carriage stops in specified location, using wrench and tape measure.
• Places pipe bowl blank on clamp and moves lever to secure blank in place.
• Pushes machine carriage forward and rotates carriage handle to move and revolve bowl blank against rotating knives to cut and shape all surfaces of pipe bowl bottom.
• Moves lever to release pipe bowl blank from machine clamp.