A professional who performs any combination of following tasks involved in assembling knife handles and handles for hollowware, such as creamers and sugar bowls. Responsibilities include:

• Holds halves of handles against electrodes on spot-welding machine to tack-weld them together.
• Places handles on rack hooks and dips them in tank of flux.
• Places knife handle halves in assembly press to fit halves together onto metal holding frame preparatory to soldering.
• Inserts premeasured amount of solder in hollow handle.
• Loads handles on screen conveyor that carries them through furnace.
• Positions soldered handles in fixture of milling machine or belt grinder to face mouth of handles.
• Positions handle in fixture and depresses pedal that submerges handles into water tank and forces compressed air into fixture.
• Observes handles to detect air bubbles indicating faulty soldering.
• Brushes flux on inside of handles and sprinkles them with powdered solder, using reed scoop.