Great artisans are usually capable of:

• Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials.
• Performing precise and skillful manipulation of small objects.
• Being active and proactive in regards to physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.

Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

• Verifying dimensions and contours of models during hand forming processes, using templates and measuring devices.
• Reading blueprints, drawings, or written specifications, and consulting with designers for determining sizes and shapes of patterns and required machine setups.
• Setting up, operating, and adjusting a variety of woodworking machines such as bandsaws and planers to cutting and shaping sections, parts, and patterns, according to specifications.
• Placing, fastening, and assembling wood parts together for forming patterns, models, or sections, using glues, nails, dowels, bolts, screws, and other fasteners.
• Trimming, smoothing, and shaping surfaces and planes, shaving, filing, scraping, and sanding models for attaining specified shapes, using hand tools.
• Selecting wooden stocks, determining layouts, and marking layouts of parts on stocks, using precision equipment such as scribers, squares, and protractors.
• Constructing wooden models, patterns, templates, full scale mock ups, and molds for parts of products and production tools.