The phrase "a skilled workman" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is highly proficient in a particular trade or craft.
Example: "The project was completed on time, thanks to the efforts of a skilled workman who paid attention to every detail."
Alternatives: "a talented craftsman" or "an expert tradesman."
Like the government armories, they used the conventional method whereby a skilled workman fashioned a complete musket, forming and fitting each part.
The medieval master was typically many things at once: a skilled workman himself; a foreman, supervising journeymen and apprentices; an employer; a buyer of raw or semifinished materials; and a seller of finished products.
Venturi was born and reared in San Francisco, where his father, Fred, a skilled workman on the docks, ran the golf shop at the Harding Park municipal golf course.
Describes an officer named Charlie who, each spring, had to pick up enough skilled workmen to effect the annual redecoration and refurbishing of the Baltimore City Jail.
"Skilled workmen were valued more highly than farmers, cattle or horses.
Hence these three, skilled workmen all, with their apprenticeship past, are treading close on the fringes of comedy.
Engineers and skilled workmen formed guilds that were dispatched throughout the empire, and these guilds spread and exchanged building ideas and principles.
With skilled workmen hard to come by in the Highlands and others unwilling to drive so far for work, there is still plenty to do.
What Morris, a designer, entrepreneur, futurist, and leader of the late nineteenth century Arts and Crafts Movement, proposed was a return to the medieval craft tradition, in which objects were made by hand by skilled workmen, and priced accordingly.
The Smithsonian's enthusiastic 1920s reports on the acquisitions described their materials as Berea grit sandstone, Numidian marble and white holly carved by "skilled workmen, assisted by students from Richardson's Boston office".
Delayed by shortages of skilled workmen, design changes and late delivery of the main armament, the ship was laid down on 19 May 1892 at the Galernii Island shipyard and launched on 6 November 1894.
