Patternmakers, Wood

Representative Tasks

• •Read blueprints, drawings, or written specifications to determine sizes and shapes of patterns and required machine setups.
• •Fit, fasten, and assemble wood parts together to form patterns, models, or sections, using glue, nails, dowels, bolts, and screws.
• •Lay out patterns on wood stock and draw outlines of units, sectional patterns, or full-scale mock-ups of products, based on blueprint specifications and sketches, and using marking and measuring devices.
• •Trim, smooth, and shape surfaces, and plane, shave, file, scrape, and sand models to attain specified shapes, using hand tools.
• •Divide patterns into sections according to shapes of castings to facilitate removal of patterns from molds.

Detailed Work Activities

• •Study blueprints or other instructions to determine equipment setup requirements.
• •Assemble wood products.
• •Draw guide lines or markings on materials or workpieces using patterns or other references.
• •Shape surfaces or edges of wood workpieces.
• •Trim excess material from workpieces.

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