A professional who constructs full-sized and scale wooden precision models of products, such as boats, automobiles, household appliances, aircraft, and machinery, using handtools, measuring instruments, and woodworking machines. Responsibilities include:

• Selects wooden stock and marks layout of parts on stock, using precision equipment, such as scriber, square, protractor, surface plates, height gauges, and scales, following blueprint or draft.
• Cuts and shapes lumber to general outline of part, using woodworking machines, such as bandsaw, lathe, planer, and router, or has stock shaped by shaper operator.
• Assembles wood parts, using dowels, glue, nails, bolts, screws, and other fasteners.
• Planes, shaves, files, scrapes, and sands model to attain specified shape, using handtools.
• Verifies dimensions and contours of model during hand forming process, using templates and measuring device.
• Waxes and polishes finished model.
• May fabricate work aids, such as scrapers or templates for own use.
• May construct hardwood hammer form dies used to produce handmade sheet metal parts.
• May construct plastic duplicates.