A professional who operates variety of machines to shape ends of wooden shuttles and attach tips. Responsibilities include:

• Squares ends of shuttles, using disk sanding machine.
• Saws off ends of shuttles, using machine equipped with rotating saw blade.
• Removes burrs from sawed ends with knife.
• Bores holes in shuttle ends for insertion of ferrules, using boring machines.
• Taps steel ferrule into ferrule hole with hammer.
• Dips corrugated shaft of metal tip in glue and sets tip in hole previously drilled.
• Forces tip into hole, using arbor press.