A professional who tends turning lathe that shapes furniture parts. Responsibilities include:

• Positions workpiece against stops on lathe carriage rests.
• Moves lever to drive tailstock and headstock centers into workpiece.
• Pushes lever to start spindle drive and move turning workpiece into turning centerhead of lathe to shape workpiece.
• Pulls lever to pull workpiece back from cutterhead and disengage drive clutch.
• Removes and inspects workpieces for smoothness and defects and places finished pieces onto cart.
• Discards defective pieces.
• Pushes cart of turned pieces to next operation.
• Sharpens blade, using whetstone.