A professional who sets up and operates multiple-spindle carving machine to make identical carvings simultaneously on pieces of wooden stock. Responsibilities include:

• Examines pattern, stock, and drawings, blueprints, or written instructions to determine knives needed to reproduce pattern on stock to be carved and number of pieces of carved stock needed.
• Selects, inserts, and locks bits in chuck of cutter spindles, using wrenches.
• Centers wood blanks between chucks on machine bed and secures blanks by turning handscrews or using wrenches.
• Inserts and locks tracer point in master chuck by turning thumbscrew or lock key.
• Presses starter buttons to activate cutter spindles to be used.
• Holds master spindle and moves tracing point over and around contours of pattern to reproduce pattern, as carvings, on blanks.
• Moves mechanism that turns blanks and pattern for carving on sides or for carving rounded objects, such as chair legs.
• Removes bits and tracing points after rough cuts are made and installs finish-cutting bits and point to complete carvings, using wrenches.
• May verify accuracy of carvings against specifications, using caliper, rule, or template.
• May blow carving chips and dust from carved blanks during carving process, using airhose, to ensure blanks are being cut according to pattern.
• May sharpen bits, using bench grinder.