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Also called patternmaker, production patternmaker, patternmakers wood and forms builder.
$49,630
Median pay a year
220
People do this work
6
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Wood Patternmaker
Summary
Patternmaker constructing wooden patterns for sand molds by reading blueprints, assembling wood parts, and operating woodworking machines to ensure precise dimensions and shapes for castings
Experience
Wood Patternmaker
Where you worked
Month Year to Month Year
Read blueprints, drawings, or written specifications to determine sizes and shapes of patterns and required machine setups
Trimmed, smoothed, and shaped surfaces, and planed, shaved, filed, scraped, and sanded models to attain specified shapes using hand tools
Divided patterns into sections according to shapes of castings to facilitate removal of patterns from molds
Verified dimensions of completed patterns using templates, straightedges, calipers, or protractors
Set up, operated, and adjusted a variety of woodworking machines such as bandsaws and lathes to cut and shape sections, parts, and patterns
Finished completed products or models with shellac, lacquer, wax, or paint
Marked identifying information such as colors or codes on patterns, parts, and templates to indicate assembly methods
Skills
Administration
Maintaining products
Core Skills
Studying blueprints or instructions, Marking equipment with labels, Measuring product dimensions, Calculating equipment, Estimating materials, Selecting production materials, Designing templates and patterns, Planning production procedures, Applying decorative finishes
Education
Certificate Your training program, Year
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Read blueprints to determine pattern specificationsFitted and assembled wood parts into patternsLaid out patterns on wood stock and drew outlinesTrimmed and shaped surfaces using hand toolsVerified dimensions of completed patterns with toolsOperated and adjusted woodworking machines for shaping
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Read blueprints to determine pattern specifications and ensure accurate dimensions
Laid out patterns on wood stock and drew outlines to guide cutting and shaping
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Read blueprints to determine pattern specifications, reducing errors in dimensions
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Reduced errors in pattern dimensionsImproved overall production speedEnhanced quality of finished products
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Laid out patterns on wood stock and drew outlines to guide cutting and shaping
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Made cutting processes more efficientSimplified the shaping of patternsReduced waste of wood stock
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Maintaining products
Studying blueprints or instructions
Marking equipment with labels
Measuring product dimensions
Calculating equipment
Estimating materials
Selecting production materials
Designing templates and patterns
Planning production procedures
Applying decorative finishes
Building production molds
Assembling wood products
The work itself
What a Wood Patternmaker does
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Plan, lay out, and construct wooden unit or sectional patterns used in forming sand molds for castings.
What it pays
How much does a Wood Patternmaker make?
Annual pay across the United States. The middle figure is the median: half earn less than that, and half earn more.
25th percentile
$41,170
Median
$49,630
75th percentile
$59,350
About 220 people do this work in the United States.
What it pays in each state
State
25th percentile
Median
75th percentile
PA
$50,120
$55,020
$55,920
Other names
Other names for this job
patternmaker, production patternmaker, patternmakers wood, forms builder, mold forms builder, mold maker, pattern engineer, pattern maker, pattern worker, wood die maker, wood experimental mechanic, wood pattern maker.
More names for this work
wood shop moldmaker, woodshop worker.
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This page is about the occupation Patternmakers, Wood. What this job involves and what it is made of come from O*NET 30.3, the US Department of Labor's occupation database, refreshed July 2026; Rung writes those records into the plain sentences you see. Pay comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS release for 2025. Rung is an independent service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by either agency. How Rung handles accuracy is on the accuracy page, and the full data credits are on the credits page.