A professional who buffs items, such as automobile trim or accessories, hardware, or fabricated plastic parts with cloth buffing wheel. Responsibilities include:

• Holds and moves parts against wheel to smooth surfaces, produce specified finish, or cut down plating defects, such as burns or salt deposits, using knowledge of metals and buffing operations.
• Coats buffing wheel by holding buffing compound stick against revolving wheel.
• Pushes and manipulates workpiece against buffing wheel to remove scratches and defects and produce specified finish, using knowledge of buffing operations and finishes.
• Replaces worn buffs, using wrench.
• Uses care not to cut through plate when buffing plated surfaces.
• May be designated according to type of material buffed as chrome buffer; copper buffer; nickel buffer.
• May polish articles and buff articles and be designated polisher and buffer i.
• May polish brass eye castings used in fitting wooden shuttles and clean castings in series of chemical solutions and be designated strapper and buffer.