Job Description:

• 1) Lays out, fabricates, and finishes standard or wooden gunstocks: Selects wooden blanks according to customer's specifications.

• 2) Draws outline on blanks following pattern or template.

• 3) Cuts along outline with bandsaw to form rough stock; and shapes recesses in stock, using chisels, gauges, and rabbeting tools.

• 4) Bores holes to specified depth in butt of gun, using drill press or brace and bit; and inserts weights to attain specified balance.

• 5) Attaches frame and trigger assembly to stock and screws barrel into frame.

• 6) Mounts gun in holding device of layout table and locates and draws finish outline, centerline, pitch, pull, and drop, using pencil, scribe, straightedge, square, and butt drop gauge.

• 7) Shapes contours, using drawknives, chisels, gauges, rasps, and files.

• 8) Finishes stock, using sandpaper, emery cloth, steel wool, oil, stain, and varnish.