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woodcarver Occupational skill for the role 'woodcarver' (also: traditional woodcarver, craft woodcarver, artisan woodworker, artisanal woodcarver, artisan, heritage woodworker). Use when the user asks for typical woodcarver work such as: Read blueprints, drawings, or written specifications to determine sizes and shapes of patterns and required machine setups.; 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.; Verify dimensions of completed patterns, using templates, straightedges, calipers, or protractors.

Woodcarver

Woodcarvers manually shape wood into the desired shape using equipment like knives, gouges and chisels. Woodcarvers produce wooden products to serve as decoration, to be integrated into a composite product, as utensils or as toys.

Core workflow

  1. Read blueprints, drawings, or written specifications to determine sizes and shapes of patterns and required machine setups.
  2. 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.
  3. Verify dimensions of completed patterns, using templates, straightedges, calipers, or protractors.
  4. Set up, operate, and adjust a variety of woodworking machines such as bandsaws and lathes to cut and shape sections, parts, and patterns, according to specifications.
  5. Trim, smooth, and shape surfaces, and plane, shave, file, scrape, and sand models to attain specified shapes, using hand tools.
  6. Fit, fasten, and assemble wood parts together to form patterns, models, or sections, using glue, nails, dowels, bolts, and screws.
  7. Correct patterns to compensate for defects in castings.
  8. Construct wooden models, templates, full scale mock-ups, jigs, or molds for shaping parts of products.

How to use this skill

Key competences (essential)

  • apply wood finishes
  • carve materials
  • check quality of raw materials
  • clean wood surface
  • join wood elements
  • maintain edged hand tools
  • manipulate wood
  • operate wood sawing equipment
  • recognise signs of wood rot
  • sand wood
  • tend lathe
  • turn wood
  • types of wood
  • use wood carving knives
  • wood cuts

Hot technologies

  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Microsoft Excel

Sources: ESCO v1.2.1 (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/b9d03330-c71c-4827-8797-3e96249d54db), ONET 30.3 (51-7032.00). See manifest.json for licensing/attribution.*