A professional who tends machine that joins sheets of veneer with gummed-paper tape. Respnsibilities include:

• Places pieces of matched veneer or veneer strips edge to edge between machine rollers.
• Lowers feed rollers that draw veneer through machine and apply moistened tape.
• Raises feed roller when taping is complete.
• Replaces reels of tape on spindle and threads tape through machine.
• Pours water into dispenser.
• Moves lever or turns handwheel to regulate speed of machine or to set pressure of feed roller according to thickness of veneer.
• May tend machine that joins sheets of veneer with gummed thread rather than tape.