AMY SMITH
123 Main Street • Atlanta, Georgia • 30339
Home: (555) 555-1234, Cell: (555) 555-1235
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Objective: Seek the Position of Furniture Finisher
SUMMARY: Remarkably gifted and resourceful Furniture Finisher with more than six years experience in shaping, finishing, and refinishing damaged, worn, and used furniture or new high-grade furniture to specified color or finish.
Summary of Qualifications
Exceptional ability to determine the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
Profound ability to make right judgment and decision, such as the considering of the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
In-depth ability to repair machines and systems using the needed tools.
Strong ability to monitor and assess self performance and that of others to make improvements or take corrective action.
In-depth ability to perform tasks quickly fingers, hands, and wrists.
Strong vision, with the ability to see details at close range.
Uncommon ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
Great ability to arrange things in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules.
Profound ability to listen to, understand and carry out instructions as given.
Profound ability to meet deadlines.
Strong ability to communicate both in writing and spoken effectively.
Professional Experience
Randel Wood Works Inc., Minneapolis, MN 2002 - Present
Furniture Finisher
Brush, spray, and hand-rub finishing ingredients, such as paint, oil, stain, or wax, onto and into wood grain; then apply lacquer or other sealers.
Disassemble items to prepare them for finishing, using hand tools.
Examine furniture to determine the extent of damage or deterioration, and to decide on the best method for repair or restoration.
Fill and smooth cracks or depressions, remove marks and imperfections, and repair broken parts, using plastic or wood putty, glue, nails, and screws.
Follow blueprints to produce specific designs.
Mix finish ingredients to obtain desired colors or shades.
Remove accessories prior to finishing, and mask areas that should not be exposed to finishing processes or substances.
Remove excess solvent, using cloths soaked in paint thinner.
Remove old finishes and damaged or deteriorated parts, using hand tools, stripping tools, sandpaper, steel wool, abrasives, solvents, and dip baths.
Select appropriate finishing ingredients such as paint, stain, lacquer, shellac, and varnish, depending on factors such as wood hardness and surface type.
Smooth, shape, and touch-up surfaces to prepare them for finishing, using sandpaper, pumice stones, steel wool, chisels, sanders, and grinders.
Treat warped or stained surfaces to restore original contours and colors.
Randel Wood Works Inc., Minneapolis, MN 2000 - 2002
Furniture Finisher Apprentice (under supervision)
Washed surfaces to prepare them for finish application.
Brushed bleaching agents on wood surfaces to restore natural color.
Conferred with customers to determine furniture colors and finishes.
Designed, created, and decorated entire pieces or specific parts of furniture, such as draws for cabinets.
Distressed surfaces with woodworking tools or abrasives before staining to create an antique appearance, and rubbed surfaces to bring out highlights and shadings.
Painted metal surfaces electrostatically, or by using a spray gun or other painting equipment.
Recommended woods, colors, finishes, and furniture styles, using knowledge of wood products, fashions, and styles.
Replaced or refurbished upholstery of items, using tacks, adhesives, softeners, solvents, stains, or polish.
Spread graining ink over metal portions of furniture in order to simulate wood-grain finish.
Stenciled, gilded, embossed, marked, and painted designs or borders to reproduce the original appearance of restored pieces, and to decorate new pieces.
Restored or refinished damaged, worn or used contemporary and antique furniture for residential and commercial use.
Repaired and replaced broken parts using woodworking tools and machines.
Removed old finish, filled nicks, depressions, cracks and holes with putty.
Smoothed surface for finishing and application of successive coats of stain, varnish, shellac, and paint on work-piece.
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