Novice Weaponsmith can make Weapon Attachments.Novice Armorsmith can make Armor Attachments.Novice Tailor can make Clothing Attachments.Recommended to Master at least one of the following Professions to gain the hidden +10 RE Chance bonus and then the other Professions can be Novice only if you desire to make all three types of attachments.
Master Shipwrights utilize a Component Analysis Tool to enable this process.
The process to combined looted space components and make them into a new component that takes the best stats of all of the combined items. Reverse Engineering Tools combine junk loot and stat loot through a series of processes to create Clothing, Weapon, or Armor attachments. This is a pseudo-profession made up of combining Weaponsmith, Tailor, and Armorsmith to make various skill enhancing attachments (SEA's for ground RE).