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Toolmaker - in engineering - is someone who makes the machine tools other workers use to produce widgets. They also work to very much tighter tolerances.
{that's what my late father was doing as a toolmaker in WW2 - mainly aircraft and then munitions - before 1939 he had actually been working on steam locomotives and post WW2 he moved into the drawing offices to do designs and calculations, with slide rules and log tables}
What makes the tools that make the tools?
 
What makes the tools that make the tools?
some very careful and exacting skilled work with such things as lathes, or shapers ... and the use of a particular grades of "tool steel"

for cutting dies for zinc casting - that was a series of metal cutting chisels, a big hammer and a means of holding the block of steel to work it, plus the ability to work a shape in reverse.
 
some very careful and exacting skilled work with such things as lathes, or shapers ... and the use of a particular grades of "tool steel"

for cutting dies for zinc casting - that was a series of metal cutting chisels, a big hammer and a means of holding the block of steel to work it, plus the ability to work a shape in reverse.

Consider the skill in making dies for recess printed stamps, not only creating the fine detail, but doing it in reverse.

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A toolmaker is literally that, a person who makes tools. Usually they’re engineers who make high precision tools for manufacturing, for example, dies, moulds, jigs, holding devices and guides.
So not just someone working in a screwdriver factory like he makes it sound then?
 
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