Job Description:

• 1) Carves checkered designs and borders in wooden gunstocks, forearms, and slide handles to provide decorative gripping surfaces: Positions paper or plastic pattern on workpiece and dusts with powdered chalk to transfer outline to surface of wood.

• 2) Secures workpiece in holding device to facilitate tooling over pattern area.

• 3) Engraves grooves and decorative borders within chalked outline, using hand checkering and rabbeting tools.

• 4) May rout recesses in workpiece, using carving tools, and insert wood or metal inlays.

• 5) May sketch and engrave special designs, such as scrolls, oak leaves, birds, or animals, and be designated Carver And Checkerer, Specials.

• 6) May carve borders only and be designated Borderer; or repair defective checkering on worn or damaged stocks and be designated Repairer And Checker.