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.

Controllers are expected to be good at:

• Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate manufacturing systems.
• Working with hand operated industrial machines and power tools.
• Adjusting knobs, levers, and physical or touch sensitive buttons in industrial devices.
• Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.

• Carving designs or figures in full or bas relief on stone, employing knowledge of stone carving techniques and sense of artistry for producing carvings consistent with designers’ plans.
• Verifying depths and dimensions of cuts or carvings for ensuring adherence to specifications, blueprints, or models, using measuring instruments.
• Laying out designs or dimensions from sketches or blueprints on stone surfaces, by freehand or by transferring them from tracing paper, using scribes or chalk and measuring instruments.
• Studying artistic objects or graphic materials, such as models, sketches, or blueprints, for planning carving or cutting techniques.
• Drilling holes and cutting or carving moldings and grooves in stone, according to diagrams and patterns.
• Shaping, trimming, or touching up roughed out designs with appropriate tools for finishing carvings.
• Selecting chisels, pneumatic or surfacing tools, or sandblasting nozzles and determining sequence of using.
• Moving fingers over surfaces of carvings for ensuring smoothness of finishes.