A professional who assembles and repairs silverware, such as coffee pots, tea sets, and trays. Responsibilities include:

• Anneals workpiece in gas oven for prescribed time to soften metal for reworking.
• Wires parts, such as legs, spouts, and handles, to body to prepare unit for soldering.
• Solders parts together and fills in holes and cracks with silver solder, using gas torch.
• Hammers out deformations and levels and sets bottoms, using dollies, hammers, and tracing punches.
• Shapes and straightens damaged legs, lids, and spouts with pliers.
• Restores dented embossing on articles, using hammers and punches.
• Pierces and cuts open design in ornamentation, using hand drill and scroll saw.
• Glues plastic separators to handles of coffee and teapots.
• May operate lathe to form articles of silverware out of silver or plated sheet, according to sketches.
• May hammer metal into shape and solder seams to make handles and spouts.
• May work with metals other than silver, such as pewter, brass, chromium, and nickel.