A professional who fabricates luggage hardware according to blueprint specifications for use as patterns in quantity production. Responsibilities include:

• Lays out design on metal, following specifications, and cuts, forms, and assembles finished parts, using hand and machine metalworking tools.
• Verifies dimensions of assembled parts against specifications, using calipers and other precision measuring instruments.
• Fastens assembled hardware to sample luggage, adjusting parts to ensure function of hinges, locks, and closures.
• Alters hardware according to changes in specifications.
• May submit finished luggage sample to customer for approval.
• May design hardware.