Job Description:

• 1) Tends bench machine that automatically fabricates pipestems for corncob pipes: Examines wooden dowels for cracks and chips, and discards defective dowels.

• 2) Positions dowel in holding device of stem processing machine.

• 3) Presses button to start machine that automatically shapes dowel to form pipestem, bores airhole in stem, and taps ferrule onto stem.

• 4) May dip end of pipestem in glue, tap stem into pipe bowl, and apply decal to pipe bowl.