metal worker

Anvil and hammer

A metal worker is someone who shapes, cuts, welds, or otherwise fabricates metal into useful or decorative objects.

The term covers a range of trades—blacksmiths, welders, sheet metal workers, machinists—united by working with metal as the primary material: The metal workers assembled the steel framework.

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sparks flying · tinsmith · blacksmith · hot forge · boilermaker · fabricator · steel · jeweler · ironworker · goldsmith · silversmith · toolmaker · aluminum · welding torch · welding mask · hammer · brass · bronze

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material worked

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Timber craftsperson

carpenter · cabinetmaker · joiner · woodcarver · potter

relationship to physical labor

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Indoor professional employee

white-collar worker · knowledge worker · clerk · bureaucrat · administrator

creation vs destruction of metal objects

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One who retrieves discards

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