A professional who tends machine that cuts leather into strips (lace) for power-transmission belting, dress belts, or boot laces. Respnsibilities include:

• Scribes line along edge of tanned hide, using ruler, chalk, or pencil.
• Cuts leather along ruled line to square edge, using knife.
• Turns screws to adjust machine guide to specified width.
• Starts machine and inserts leather between feed rollers, against machine guide, and under circular knife that cuts leather into strips.
• Ties strips into bundles for further processing or shipment by hand or using automatic bundling machine.
• May be designated according to product as belting cutter; machine boot-lace cutter; sole-stock cutter.