Job Description:

• 1) Repairs and replaces sporting and athletic equipment, such as fishing tackle, tennis rackets, or archery equipment: Restrings tennis rackets with animal gut or synthetic string.

• 2) Replaces defective parts of fishing tackle, such as reels and rods.

• 3) Replaces metal points on arrow shafts.

• 4) Refinishes surfaces of sporting and athletic equipment with lacquer or paint.

• 5) May carve wooden parts for sporting and athletic equipment, using handtools and powered woodworking tools.

• 6) May make new gun stocks and pistol grips.

• 7) May reglue and rewind bamboo sections of fly rods.

• 8) May rewind shafts of bows and arrows.

• 9) May be designated according to type of sporting or athletic equipment repaired as Archery-Equipment Repairer; Fishing-Tackle Repairer; Football-Pad Repairer; Tennis-Racket Repairer.