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A professional who operates machine to scrape and smooth outer surface of barrel by holding handtools against barrel. Responsibilities include:
* Removes temporary hoops from barrel and places barrel horizontally on barrel rest.
* Starts machine.
* Clamps barrel between chucks of lathe.
* Holds barrel plane against surface of revolving barrel and guides tool along length of barrel to scrape and smooth barrel.
* Lifts tool from surface of barrel, releases pressure of tail chuck on barrel, and lifts barrel from machine.
Industry:Professional careers
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.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates wood-turning lathe to peel, trim, and shape poles into round or tapered form to use as transmission line poles crossarms and boat masts. Responsibilities include:
* Installs cutters in machine and fastens cutter-guide arm on straight or tapered track, according to work order, using rule and wrenches.
* Pulls control cables of hoist to lift pole onto lathe carriage.
* Centers and secures piece between live spindle and tailstock, using handwheel, rule, and wrenches.
* Starts motors to actuate exhaust fan and cutterhead, and to rotate pole.
* Pulls levers and turns handwheel to move cutterhead along rails against pole to cut and shape pole to specified dimensions.
* Measures pole as cutting progresses, using rule and calipers.
* Sharpens and replaces worn cutters.
* May clean machinery and work area, using broom.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who turns corncob pipe bowls on high-speed lathe, using cutting tool.
* Places cob on revolving spindle of lathe.
* Holds and moves cutting tool (wood chisel) against revolving cob to shape cob, according to size and contours of finished models.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who turns corncob pipe bowls on high-speed lathe, using cutting tool.
* Places cob on revolving spindle of lathe.
* Holds and moves cutting tool (wood chisel) against revolving cob to shape cob, according to size and contours of finished models.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that turns and shapes briar blocks into smoking bowl blanks. Responsibilities include:
* Clamps block in holding device of wood lathe.
* Turns wheel that feeds block into machine equipped with preset cutting tools that simultaneously shape sides, turn top, and bore hole in briar block.
* May use power saw to cut pipe bowl blanks from briar blocks, prior to shaping and boring process.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that smooths inside surface of bucket. Responsibilities include:
* Places bucket in chuck of machine.
* Forces bottom of bucket into chuck, using iron bar.
* Steps on pedal to start chuck and bucket rotating.
* Feeds cutting tool into inner surface of bucket, manually smoothing bucket.
* Cuts croze near bottom of bucket with special attachment to machine.
* Rubs top edge of bucket with sandpaper to smooth bucket and removes bucket from lathe.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that smooths inside surface of bucket. Responsibilities include:
* Places bucket in chuck of machine.
* Forces bottom of bucket into chuck, using iron bar.
* Steps on pedal to start chuck and bucket rotating.
* Feeds cutting tool into inner surface of bucket, manually smoothing bucket.
* Cuts croze near bottom of bucket with special attachment to machine.
* Rubs top edge of bucket with sandpaper to smooth bucket and removes bucket from lathe.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends series of copy lathes that turn wood or plastic blanks into items, such as rifle or shotgun stocks, golf club heads, and shoe lasts. Responsibilities include:
* Clamps specified model of article to be turned next to scanning arm of copy lathe and mounts wood or plastic blank between lathe centers.
* Starts machine to activate cutters and rotate blanks to shape workpiece while guided by roller (follower) that scans surface of model.
* May rough shape blanks on band-scroll saw before turning.
* May adjust machine to regulate size of copied model.
* May be designated according to article turned as last turner; stock turner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more machines that shape smoking pipe bowls and shanks. Responsibilities include:
* Places pipe bowl over chuck and turns nut or moves lever to expand chuck against inside of bowl, using wrench.
* Starts machine that automatically rotates bowl against cutters to remove excess briar.
* Removes shaped pipes from machines.
* May turn handwheel to rotate bowl against cutters.
* May tend machine that cuts and shapes only bottom of smoking pipe bowl.
Industry:Professional careers
