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Verify dimensions or check the quality or fit of pieces to ensure adherence to specifications.
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Match materials for color, grain, or texture, giving attention to knots or other features of the wood.
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Estimate the amounts, types, or costs of needed materials.
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Apply Masonite, formica, or vinyl surfacing materials.
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Dip, brush, or spray assembled articles with protective or decorative finishes, such as stain, varnish, paint, or lacquer.
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Reinforce joints with nails or other fasteners to prepare articles for finishing.
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Repair or alter wooden furniture, cabinetry, fixtures, paneling, or other pieces.
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Trim, sand, or scrape surfaces or joints to prepare articles for finishing.
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Attach parts or subassemblies together to form completed units, using glue, dowels, nails, screws, or clamps.
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Perform final touch-ups with sandpaper or steel wool.
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Cut timber to the right size, and shape and trim parts of joints to ensure a snug fit, using hand tools, such as planes, chisels, or wood files.
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Establish the specifications of articles to be constructed or repaired, or plan the methods or operations for shaping or assembling parts, based on blueprints, drawings, diagrams, or oral or written instructions.
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Install hardware, such as hinges, handles, catches, or drawer pulls, using hand tools.
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Measure and mark dimensions of parts on paper or lumber stock prior to cutting, following blueprints, to ensure a tight fit and quality product.
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Produce or assemble components of articles, such as store fixtures, office equipment, cabinets, or high-grade furniture.
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Design furniture, using computer-aided drawing programs.
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Bore holes for insertion of screws or dowels, by hand or using boring machines.
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Set up or operate machines, including power saws, jointers, mortisers, tenoners, molders, or shapers, to cut, mold, or shape woodstock or wood substitutes.
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Program computers to operate machinery.
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Draw up detailed specifications and discuss projects with customers.