He began learning the woodturning trade at the age of 11 or 12. He would have liked to have learned the art of woodcarving, but the master teaching at the time said he would not train anyone else, so he went to learn how to work the lathe at the Monteiros company in the village of Roch\u00e3o. As was customary at the time, the younger ones did as they were told. His task then was to tidy up wood shavings. When he got tired, he would just leave the basket and the shavings behind! <\/p>\n
After two or three months, he left and went to audition at another company, Ant\u00f3nio Nunes Campos. They liked his performance and invited him to join; he started on a Thursday, worked until Saturday, and received his first salary: 45$00. At that time, there was high demand, and professionals who stood out were coveted by companies. Around the age of 18 or 19, he volunteered for military service, where he remained between 1977 and 1979, and in 1980, he took the training course for the Guard. Initially stationed in the Lisbon area, he stopped working the lathe; upon returning to Porto, he began working the lathe at night after his primary shift, maintaining this routine to this day. In parallel, he has always been connected to music: first in the Vilela Band and later in the Guard Band. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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