752206 - Furniture maker

Makes furniture sets, office furniture, repairs wooden products. Processes wood with hand and electric tools and woodworking lathes, examines blueprints of various furniture, makes sketches for planned furniture production, composes and constructs furniture of medium complexity. Upholsters furniture with tapestries and other materials. Repairs or removes finish defects in furniture, fixes or restores them.

Main activities

* determines the types of wood used for furniture production, its properties and defects;
* sorts, measures, marks wood and prepares it for processing;
* reads the main structural blueprints of soft, sectional or slatted furniture, draws sketches of furniture and their details;
* uses and maintains woodworking and furniture production tools and devices;
* selects materials for furniture production and fittings, manufactures details from solid wood and various boards.

Characteristic competences

* determines the types of wood used for furniture production
draw sketches of furniture and their details;
* join, glue details;
* finish joint places;
* perform furniture surface finishing works.