master workman

The man whom I am working for is name Myers; but I expect to go to work for another man by name of Tinsly, who is a master workman in this city.

From The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

The thing done, the master workman in Ford snatched at the helm.

From Empire Builders by Jay Hambidge

You will find, by careful perusal, that it is like a fine edifice, each stone of which is laid by a master workman.

From Zula by H. Esselstyn Lindley

The experience which grows out of the sentence constitutes him a creator, a master workman, and lifts him into a higher region of life.

From Misread Passage of Scriptures by James Baldwin Brown

The manufacturer was not a capitalist, but simply a master workman.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers