Reborn Craftsman

The door of the shed.

Liu Xing saw samples of bamboo mats and delivery people.

This person must be at least 40 years old. He is wearing a white 'Acron' short-sleeved sleeve and has a hideous scar on his face. Judging from the traces of the scar, it seems that it happened only recently.

After he got off the semi-old southern motorcycle, he looked Liu Xing up and down: "You are the Liu Xing my boss said? You are the boss of this bamboo workshop?"

"Yes!" Liu Xing nodded slightly, and then subconsciously took two steps back. It wasn't because he was cautious, but because he smelled a strong smell of alcohol from the delivery man's breath, which almost choked him.

Before he was reborn, what he heard the most was the words "Don't drink while driving, don't drive after drinking". This delivery man came from the city, and after drinking so much, he probably didn't know how to write the dead word.

However, as the person he met for the first time, he was not qualified to take care of the delivery man. Seeing that the delivery man took all the samples of bamboo mats from the rear rack of the motorcycle, he immediately reached out to take them.

Chapter 061 Change the Process

"Here are the sample sizes of six bamboo mats. My boss said, you can make according to this size, but the quality must be guaranteed!" The thick blue smoke from the trachea swam away.

Liu Xing quickly covered his nose and watched the delivery man leave.

However, what was funny in the next second was that the delivery man was too fast to avoid a passer-by in time, so he flew directly into the ditch beside the road.

Seeing the distressed look of the delivery man staggering up from the ditch, Liu Xing knew that there should be no serious problems, but it was hard to say for the Southern Motorcycle.

Because judging from the screeching sound of the Southern motorcycle falling into the ditch, an important part must have been broken.

"This guy! Now you know the consequences of drinking and driving!" Liu Xing didn't care about the delivery man, but walked into the shed with a bamboo mat.

It's not that he was indifferent, but the moment the delivery man fell into the ditch, many enthusiastic villagers stepped forward to help. Although the motorcycle could not be pulled up temporarily, the person had already landed. Sitting on the road with a sad face, I didn't know what to do for a while.

In the greenhouse.

Liu Xingduan sat by the window and opened the rolled bamboo mat sample.

As for the size, he didn't pay too much attention to it, but checked the quality of the bamboo mat samples.

He was surprised to find that the bamboo mat that Zhang Yan asked the delivery man to deliver had no hemming around it.

"This kind of bamboo mat, it will be miserable if it is stretched to sleep at night!" Liu Xing shook his head sighingly. If you want to make a bamboo mat, you must use an edge wrapping machine to wrap the edges around the bamboo mat, which is both beautiful and beautiful.

"But where can I buy the hemming machine?" Liu Xing suddenly thought of this substantive question. It is now 1993, and I am afraid that the hemming machine has not been produced yet.

If there is, it is impossible for the merchants who make bamboo mats not to wrap the sides of the bamboo mats.

"And the technology of the broken silk strips seems to be not in place!" Liu Xing reached out and touched the flatness of the back of the bamboo mat, and came to a conclusion, that is, the whole is not on the same plane, and the overall thickness of the strips is too different. Far.

If this kind of bamboo mat is laid on the bed, I'm afraid it will be uncomfortable.

Of course, Liu Xing also knew that it was no fault of the producer.

After all, when the bamboo is broken through the city, it is not done at the same time. How can it be possible to ensure that the thickness is absolutely consistent, even if he can't achieve such a technology.

This can only be done using machinery, such as the planing technique of a planer.

Now that he has a planer, the technical problem of inconsistent thickness will be solved. As for the hemming machine, he remembers that he can replace it with a sewing machine. His mother has one, but it has been kept at home for a long time. I don’t know if it can be used. .

Thinking of this, Liu Xing immediately called Zhu Xiuqing over: "Sister, can you weave this bamboo mat?"

"Yes, but I'm very slow in breaking silk strips, I'm afraid I won't be able to make one or two pieces a day!" Zhu Xiuqing, who came over, replied embarrassedly.

"The broken silk strips can be processed with a cutting machine, and I can also use a planer to deal with the uneven thickness of the strips. You said that in such a situation, how many pieces can be produced in a day?" Liu Xing said with a light smile. .

"I really don't know about this. After all, I don't weave enough bamboo mats. Why don't you let me try it first?" Zhu Xiuqing told the truth, she was afraid that she would boast about Haikou, but if she couldn't finish it, it would be troublesome.

"Okay!" Liu Xing nodded.

Immediately walked to the planer, picked up a big clip made of cast iron and fixed it on it.

This pig iron clip is a planer with rollers. Although the overall structure seems simple, it can instantly press wood and bamboo into materials of the same thickness. Don't underestimate this planer, it is a great invention , At least it saves the carpenter nearly double the time of cutting materials and more.

Now that he has adjusted the planer, he just wants to try to see if he can process the thickness of the southern bamboo in large quantities. If it works, the order of [-] bamboo mats that Zhang Yan placed for him will have no problems in the future, except for time. Somewhat compact.

On the side, Zhu Xiuqing was already proficient in using the broken machine. She picked up a piece of bamboo that had been cut to length and broke it into silk strips.

The so-called silk strips.

It is a very small bamboo strip, which is much smaller than the bamboo strips of dustpans and baskets, and is as soft as hair, so it is called silk strips.

Broken silk strips are very delicate, and they are also the most difficult strips to break in the craftsmanship of strip craftsmen.

But now that there is a broken machine, just adjust the size.

Seeing the rushing silk strips coming out from the other end of the broken machine, Zhu Xiuqing quickly reached out to catch them, and then placed them neatly on the wooden bench beside her. Seeing that there were several broken ones, she hurriedly picked them out carefully.

Liu Xing picked up a dozen silk strips and placed them side by side at the port of the planer, and then carefully pushed them in.

Zhu Xiuqing watched from the side. She thought that the silk strips would turn into powder, but she knew she was wrong in the next second. At the other port of the planer, a dozen or so silk strips lined up appeared.

Their thickness has reached the absolute consistency.

Flat and smooth, it looks very seductive.

Liu Xing picked it up and took a look, smiled very satisfied, then turned to ask Zhu Xiuqing: "Sister, do you need steaming, soaking and other processes when making bamboo mats?"

"Of course, otherwise, if there is no steamed and soaked silk strips, the bamboo mat made after a long time will have an unpleasant smell!" Zhu Xiuqing said seriously, but then there was a hint of surprise in her eyes: "Cousin , You should be quite familiar with the process of making bamboo mats! Why do you ask me?"

"Can't you ask?" Liu Xing smiled lightly, looking at the dozen or so strips on the planer and lost in thought.

He is clear about the production process of bamboo mats, otherwise how could he ask the topic of whether steaming and soaking are needed.

In fact, Zhu Xiuqing didn't fully comprehend the meaning of his words, that is, the silk strips used as bamboo mats can remove the smell without steaming or soaking.

This peculiar smell, to put it bluntly, is the astringent smell of bamboo, which is what people often call "angry".

The astringent bamboo will evaporate with the water after cooking, leaving behind its own unique light bamboo fragrance. This kind of bamboo fragrance is almost inaudible, but when people sleep on it, it will be stimulated by the body temperature of the human body. When it comes out, it smells very pleasant, which is the main function of steamed silk strips.

As for the function of soaking, it is to remove the toughness of the bamboo itself. After all, if the toughness is not removed, the bamboo mat woven with nylon rope is easily deformed, and it will become scrap in a few days.

Chapter 062 Your method is wrong!

This is a technical problem. In fact, many master bamboo craftsmen do not need to soak the bamboo mats at all. They can be easily resolved by weaving according to the texture of the bamboo. Liu Xing will also, but it is extremely difficult to really do this. It's complicated, so he didn't plan to say it, but planned to use a planer to solve it.

As for the problem of steaming to remove odors, he remembered the practice of bamboo pillows in the Southern Song Dynasty, which was to use special rosin to smear them to neutralize odors. This is very easy to operate, and rosin is also very cheap in the current era. As long as it can be put into use, then The two processes of cooking and soaking can be saved.

Of course, this is only his tentative idea, as to whether it will be successful, the final test will be the only way to know.

If it doesn't work, it will be very troublesome to find a craftsman to build a large sink for soaking and cooking silk strips in the greenhouse.

To put it bluntly, if a bamboo mat cost ten yuan a piece, he would die at a loss.

Seeing that Zhu Xiuqing had time now, Liu Xing came back to his senses, operated the planer and continued to process the thickness of the remaining silk strips to be the same, and then made a simple platform with more than a dozen pine boards.