A professional who designs and builds plaster models of monuments, statues, and memorials. Responsibilities include:

• Interviews customer to obtain information regarding size, style, and motif of memorial.
• Draws sketches and detailed plans of memorial according to customer's suggestions.
• Casts plaster block and carves design in block, using chisels, mallets, knives, and files to form model of memorial.
• Routes finished model and work order specifications to stone carver.
• May draw detailed sketches or plans of family burial plots.
• May build models of cemeteries used as displays.