| To qualify as a master toolmaker, craftsmen had to make three or four specified tools in a set period of time. |
| They fought with the cold methodical precision of a toolmaker and the delicate skill of a highwire circus performer. |
| Boehmer left the Marine Corps and joined Hobart in its machine shop, where he learned on the job how to become a machinist and a toolmaker. |
| Barry Johnson's father was an engineer whose first jobs used his skill as a toolmaker, then later he became a planning engineer. |
| In 1852, Horace Smith, a toolmaker, and Daniel Wesson, a former apprenticed gunsmith, combined their skills to produce a revolutionary handgun. |
| I lasted as an apprentice toolmaker for about nine months before becoming a quality control engineer. |
