World’s best furniture carpenter is Hungarian

According to mindenegybenblog.hu, a young Hungarian became first at the professionals’ Olympic Games, WorldSkills held in Brazil.

In the contest, which was held between August11-16, more than 1200 competitors of 63 countries measured their knowledge in 50 categories. Hungary was represented by 14 professionals of 13 trades. Of them, Attila Laszlo furniture carpenter earned a gold medal.

Attila Laszlo had no trouble choosing a career, since in their family, carpentry handed down from father to son, his father and brother also work in this trade. The 21-year-old young man from Vas, who lives and works in Pecs, described himself as not a man of words, he rather likes working in the workshop, publicity is strange to him which was resulted by the success in the competition. He prepared for the tournament for 2 years; he has already made the commode, with which he won the gold medal, 8 times. Last year, he participated in the EuroSkills competition, he started the Olympics in the possession of the experience earned there – MTI said.

The competition rules were very strict, everyone had the exact amount of raw material available which was needed for the preparation of the work piece, so repair was not possible at all – Attila Laszlo said. He had 22 hours to make the commode, the jury of experts assessed the various phases of work every day, they mostly looked the expert of the surface’s processing and the accuracy. Compared to the announcement, task was changed in the last moments for which the competitors had to adjust.