Tinsmith
![Tinsmith from Libya](/Images/godic/202502/16/Tinsmith_working_in_Tripoli_or_Medina5447.jpg")
![Tinware Desk Lamp, late 1930s, Bandelier National Monument. Made by a Civilian Conservation Corps tinsmith.](/Images/godic/202502/16/Tin_lamp_1930s5447.jpg")
![Tinsmiths on the roof of Storkyrkan, Stockholm 1903.](/Images/godic/202502/16/Plåtslagare_på_Storkyrkans_tak,_Stockholm_-_Nordiska_Museet_-_NMA.00391015448.jpg")
![Contemporary tinsmith whom also serves as a reenactor with a 19th-century hearing aid at Fort Ross State Historic Park](/Images/godic/202502/16/Tinsmith_-_Fort_Ross_State_Historic_Park_-_Jenner,_California_-_Stierch5448.jpg")
A tinsmith, sometimes known as a whitesmith, tinner, tinker, tinman, or tinplate worker, is a person who makes and repairs things made of tinware, or other light metals. By extension it can also refer to the person who deals in tinware, or tin plate.