Job Description:

• 1) Finishes or refinishes damaged, worn, or used furniture or new high-grade furniture to specified color or finish, utilizing knowledge of wood properties, finishes, and furniture styling: Disassembles article, masks areas adjacent to areas being finished, or removes accessories such as knobs and hinges, using handtools, to prepare article for finishing.

• 2) Removes old finish from surfaces, using steel wool, sandpaper, or solvent and putty knife.

• 3) Removes excess solvent with cloth immersed in paint thinner or sal soda.

• 4) Applies plastic-putty, wood putty, or lacquer-stick to surface, using spatula or knife, to fill nicks, depressions, holes, and cracks.

• 5) Smooths surface for finishing, using sandpaper or power sander.

• 6) Selects finish ingredients and mixes them by hand or machine to obtain specified color or shade or to match existing finish.

• 7) Brushes or sprays successive coats of stain, varnish, shellac, lacquer, or paint on workpiece.

• 8) Grains wood or paints wood trim, using graining roller, comb, sponge, or brush.

• 9) Polishes and waxes finished surfaces.

• 10) May restore wood to natural color, using bleaching acid and neutralizer.

• 11) May spread graining ink over metal portions of surfaces with cheesecloth to simulate wood-grainlike finish.

• 12) May finish piano and organ cases and be designated Piano-And-Organ Refinisher.

• 13) May finish mirror and picture frames and be designated according to type of finish applied as Powder Gilder; Whitener.

• 14) May finish television receiver cabinets and be designated Television-Cabinet Finisher.

• 15) May finish wooden parts of custom-made firearms and be designated Finisher, Special Stocks.

• 16) May stain and finish surfaces of new furniture pieces to simulate antiques, bringing out highlights and shadings by rubbing surfaces with abrasives or cloth, and be designated Antiquer.