Reborn Great Nation Craftsman

Chapter 156 Tools Are For Humans
The old redwood with a diameter of 1.5 meters was brought into the backyard, and it took a lot of effort to get it on the band saw.

After adjusting the size, a [-]cm piece of wood veneer was sawed off after a burst of hissing sound.

Naturally, such a big old mahogany cannot be sawed in half from the middle, which would be cool, but it would cause great waste.

First saw off the veneer, that is, the sapwood, and then follow up to calculate the thickness and disassemble it into boards, so as to reduce waste.

The difference between the heartwood and sapwood of old mahogany is obvious. The sapwood is yellowish white to yellowish brown, and some tree species are brown.The heartwood is orange, light reddish brown, reddish brown, purple red, purple brown to dark brown, among which purple red and purple brown are the best wood colors.

After the veneer was sawed off, Master Du, Zhao Jiazhu and several other old masters couldn't help but lean over to look at it.

After seeing it, they all congratulated Zhang Junping: "Director Zhang, you have bought this old mahogany. It has no hollow core and the core material is purple!"

Why mahogany furniture is expensive, in addition to the complicated production process and business hype, there is also the precious material, because the characteristics of mahogany ten sandalwood and nine empty, it greatly increases the preciousness of mahogany, especially aniseed.

Old mahogany is a type of yellow sandalwood, so naturally it cannot escape the curse of ten sandalwood and nine empty spaces.

As I said before, the batch of Hainan huanghuali imported by Guanghua Timber Factory was all big materials. After buying them and unpacking them, 90.00% of them were hollow materials. Because of this incident, the head of the procurement department was dismissed, and finally Zhang Junping picked it up and bought it back at the price of firewood.

"Thank you!" Zhang Junping smiled and cupped his fists in return, "With your kind words, I hope that the next ones will be filled with top-quality ingredients."

The same old mahogany, because of the different growth environment and growth years, the color and texture of the core material inside will be different, and the best is undoubtedly purple.

The purple-red color is bright but not coquettish, and it is born with a sense of history. It is the best material for processing and making furniture.

Zhang Junping didn't want to let people untie it all, but just unwrapped a two-centimeter-thick board from the core part to repair the old mahogany moon-door canopy bed.

After the two-centimeter board was untied, someone took the old mahogany off the band saw, slowly moved it to the side, and covered it with a canvas raincloth.

Then Zhang Junping measured the size again, drew several lines on it, and then sawed the board into five pieces.

I have been busy until night before I made the surrounding fences.

The reason why it is five yuan is because there are two small fence panels on both sides of the moon cave gate in front, and three fence panels on the back and left and right, which add up to exactly five yuan.

"As expected of the apprentice of the young master's family, the work is quick and easy. It only took a while to make five fence panels." Zhao Jiazhu flattered.

"It's just that the rough embryo of the fence has been made, and there are still some hollowed-out patterns on the back. There is also a silver inlaid pattern in the middle. It can't be finished in two days." Regarding Zhao Jiazhu's flattery, Zhang Junping could only shake his head and laugh.

"That's too fast. If we leave this work to my elder brothers, it will take two days to do the rough embryo."

"The times are different. Mr. Zhao, you use traditional tools. Now I use electric saws and electric planes. Naturally, they are faster.

The back is hollowed out and carved with patterns and inlaid with silver wires, but there are no electrical tools to use, so it can only be done by hand bit by bit. "Zhang Junping laughed.

"Director Zhang is right, the power tools are really fast now.

Our carpentry factory also has a lot of electric tools, but we old guys are not used to it, so we still use these traditional tools smoothly. " Zhao Jiazhu said with a smile.

"Traditional tools cannot be thrown away, and new power tools must be used. Tools are invented to be used by people.

Let's go, it's time for Master Zhao to eat. After dinner, continue to supervise them to practice the use of traditional tools. "

Zhang Junping put away the processed fence boards, and then greeted Zhao Jiazhu to eat with a smile.

The old carpenters in the 80s are still very enlightened. They are all supportive of the emergence of electric tools. Even if they are not used to or unable to use electric tools because of their age, they will not reject them.

On the contrary, in later generations, some people clamored that traditional crafts should use traditional tools, otherwise it would be discarding the tradition, and it could not be regarded as traditional crafts.

Every time Zhang Junping heard such remarks, he wanted to say, go to hell.

The traditional tools in the eyes of modern people have been gradually perfected after thousands of years of development.

At the earliest time, there was no saw, and it was the patriarch Lu Ban who invented the saw.

Also, there were no planes at first, and carpenters used adzes.

Later, after planes were introduced from abroad, carpenters gradually switched to planes.

It can be seen that the tools are constantly developing and improving.

Electric tools are a progress, and their appearance will not hinder the inheritance and development of traditional crafts, on the contrary, it will greatly promote the development and inheritance of traditional crafts.

Handicraft is neither an art nor a culture, it is the craftsman's ability to eat and the craftsman's job.

When a handicraft cannot support the artisans, it faces the fate of being eliminated and abandoned.

If handicrafts are not eliminated or abandoned, it depends not on propaganda or calling, but on their own evolution, development and transformation.

And in this regard, carpentry, or carpentry craftsmen, have done very well. Since the founder of Luban, they have been constantly evolving, developing and changing, and have supported countless people.

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"Old Zhang, what's for breakfast? I'll go buy it!"

In the morning, Liu Zhengwen got up earlier than Zhang Junping. Zhang Junping just got up and was about to wash up. Liu Zhengwen had already finished washing up, so he asked Zhang Junping what he had for breakfast.

"Soymilk and fried dough sticks!" Zhang Junping said casually.

As soon as Huang Xue came out of the inner room, she heard Zhang Junping calling for soy milk and fried dough sticks. She blushed and gave Zhang Junping a hard look.

Then he turned around and said to Liu Zhengwen: "Old Liu, please help me to buy two bowls of noodle tea, and some forks!"

"Okay, two bowls of noodle tea and a fork!" Liu Zhengwen agreed, and ran out to buy breakfast.

The reason why Liu Zhengwen is so active is because he took another order for decoration yesterday.

After the last decoration job was finished, he and a few classmates got 50 yuan each, plus the design fee, a total of 100 yuan.

This time I took another job, so I was naturally happy.

This is not just a question of money, but more of a sense of accomplishment brought about by customers' recognition of him.

This sense of accomplishment is more important to men than money.

What's more, after handing over the money to the daughter-in-law, the tenderness of that night.

"My mind is full of..." Huang Xue turned her head and saw Zhang Junping smirking at her, and kicked Zhang Junping angrily before turning around to wash up.

(End of this chapter)