Shaper Operator: A description for the shaper operator job
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Shaper Operator – Sets up and operates single- or double-spindle shaping machine to cut grooves, rabbets, flutes, or pattern shapes on surface and edges of woodstock: Examines drawings, blueprints, or written orders to determine cutting pattern. Selects, installs, aligns, and adjusts cutterheads, guides, and jigs to make specified cuts and shapes, using handtools. Starts machine and feeds woodstock (with grain of wood) into cutterheads, holding and pressing stock against guide or jig to obtain specified cut. Measures shaped stock to verify conformance to pattern, using rule, calipers, or gauges. May also hold and push stock into cutterheads without aid of jig or guide. May also sharpen and mount cutting knives in cutterheads, using balance scale, truing I block, emery wheel, and wrench. May also be designated according to machine operated as Double-Spindle-Shaper Operator (wood working). May also operate shaper machine to mold panels by cutting away sections along edges of stock and be designated Panel-Raiser Operator (sawmill and planing mill). May also be designated according to parts shaped as Small-Parts-Shaper Operator (wood working).
Job industry: wood working
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