Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Innsbruck

1928

Everything by hand, without a machine. Barrel cut, that is, trim, trim and plane the boards. Planing is a strict've been working. But strict work I was accustomed. And everything by hand. I could not do that today. Of course, at that age. But I know how it goes. I could buy it yet. "To What number did you work in the workshop of his father?" How much? - "For What number!" Well, yes, we were two apprentices in the beginning, when I am gone in here. But not a journeyman. Nothing doing. Then I went as a journeyman, in a couple of carpenters. It was just a bad time. "How long was your average working hours?" Yes, the father, as there were ten, twelve hours like this. "From - how many days a week?" Six days, Saturday, too. "And, you have paid your father?" Please? Did your father paid in the apprenticeship? No, nothing, absolutely nothing. - That would be the least! "The journeyman, you have made with another carpenter." Yes, yes. "What you have there can be and what was required of you?" I made a Küchenkredenz. All by hand! But that has hingehaut is (successfully)! She was instantly gone. She was one hundred percent right. "Please tell more. Do they have designed themselves? What kind of wood it was made?" Spruce. Yes, from a book out I had the subscription of. The one she has taken from me - everything I've done alone! The one she has taken from me, said: This is a masterpiece! That was not so, as today. As required even more, as then.