A professional who sets up and operates turning machines to shape and bore smoking pipe bowls. Responsibilities include:

• Sharpens turning machine cutting knives, using grinding wheel.
• Inserts and secures knives in cutterhead, using socket wrench.
• Turns handwheels and moves levers to adjust turning machine carriage stops and cutting depth of machine.
• Places block in clamp on machine carriage and moves lever to secure block in clamp.
• Pushes machine carriage handle to move block into cutterhead to shape and bore sample pipe bowl.
• Examines sample pipe bowl to verify shape and dimension against specifications, using caliper and gauges.
• Performs other duties as described under briar cutter.