Job Description:

• 1) 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.

• 2) Selects, installs, aligns, and adjusts cutterheads, guides, and jigs to make specified cuts and shapes, using handtools.

• 3) Starts machine and feeds woodstock into cutterheads, holding and pressing stock against guide or jig to obtain specified cut.

• 4) Measures shaped stock to verify conformance to pattern, using rule, calipers, or gauges.

• 5) May hold and push stock into cutterheads without aid of jig or guide.

• 6) May sharpen and mount cutting knives in cutterheads, using balance scale, truing I block, emery wheel, and wrench.

• 7) May be designated according to machine operated as Double-Spindle-Shaper Operator.

• 8) May operate shaper machine to mold panels by cutting away sections along edges of stock and be designated Panel-Raiser Operator.

• 9) May be designated according to parts shaped as Small-Parts-Shaper Operator.