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O*NET detailed work activitySharpen cutting or grinding tools
Stays humanHands-on work
10 jobs11 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Maintain tools or equipment, under the O*NET work activity group Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 11 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Replace worn tools, and sharpen dull cutting tools and dies, using bench grinders or cutter-grinding machines.
- Sharpen abrasive grinding tools, using machines and hand tools.
- Replace or sharpen dulled cutting tools such as saws.
- Sharpen cutting tools, using bench grinders.
- Sharpen dulled blades, using bench grinders, abrasive wheels, or lathes.
- Sharpen tools such as saws, picks, shovels, screwdrivers, and scoops, either manually or by using bench grinders and emery wheels.
- Hone cutters with oilstones to remove nicks.
- Sharpen cutting blades, knives, or saws, using files, bench grinders, or honing stones.