I brought an old redwood tree with a diameter of 1.5 meters into the backyard and spent a lot of effort to get it onto the band saw.
After adjusting the size, there was a sound of the band saw cutting wood, and a five-centimeter piece of veneer was sawed off.
Naturally, such a large old redwood cannot be sawed in half from the middle. That would be cool, but it would cause a huge waste.
First cut off the veneer, that is, the sapwood, and then follow up by calculating the thickness and dividing it into boards, so as to reduce waste.
The difference between the heartwood and sapwood of old mahogany is obvious. The sapwood is yellow-white to yellow-brown, and some tree species are tan. The heartwood is orange, light reddish-brown, reddish-brown, purple-red, purple-brown to dark brown, among which purple-red,
Purple brown is the best wood color.
After the veneer was sawed off, Master Du, Zhao Jiazhu and other masters couldn't help but come over to take a look.
After seeing it, they all congratulated Zhang Junping: "Director Zhang, you have bought this old redwood. There is no hollow and the core material is purple-red!"
Why is mahogany furniture expensive? In addition to the complicated production process and the hype of merchants, there is also the precious material. Because of the characteristics of mahogany, the ten properties of mahogany, especially the aniseed material, greatly increase the preciousness of mahogany, especially aniseed.
Old mahogany is a type of rosewood, so naturally it cannot escape the curse of ten sandalwoods and nine empty spaces.
As mentioned before, the batch of Hainan huanghuali imported by Guanghua Timber Factory was all made of aniseed material. After buying it and untying it, 99% of it was made of hollow material. If it is not hollow, it will not be able to make large boards.
Come on, in the end because of this incident, the head of the purchasing department was dismissed from his post. In the end, Zhang Junping picked it up and bought it back at the price of firewood.
"Thank you!" Zhang Junping smiled and clasped his fists in return, "For your kind words, I hope that all the products coming out in the future will be of the best quality."
It is also old redwood. Due to the different growth environment and growth years, the color and texture of the core material will also be different. The best one is undoubtedly purple.
The purple-red color is bright but not showy. It is born with a sense of history and is the best material for processing and making furniture.
Zhang Junping was not willing to let anyone undo it all. He only took out a two-centimeter-thick board from the core material and used it to repair the old mahogany moon-hole door canopy bed.
After untying the two-centimeter board, someone removed the old redwood from the band saw, slowly moved it aside, and covered it with a canvas tarp.
Then Zhang Junping measured the dimensions, drew a few lines on it, and then sawed the board into five pieces.
I worked until night to build the surrounding fence.
The reason why it is five pieces is because there are two small fence boards on both sides of the moon cave door in the front, and there are three fence boards behind and on the left and right sides, which adds up to exactly five pieces.
"You are worthy of being an apprentice of the young master's family. He is very quick at work. With just a little effort, he made five fence panels." Zhao Jiazhu said flatteringly.
"I've just made the rough outline of the fence. There are some hollow patterns on the back, and there's still a silver inlaid pattern in the middle. It won't take more than two days to finish." In response to Zhao Jiazhu's flattery, Zhang Junping could only shake his head and smile.
"That's very fast. If we leave this job to a few of us, it would take two days just to make the rough embryo."
"Times have changed. Master Zhao, you used traditional tools. I now use an electric saw and an electric plane, which are naturally faster.
There are no electrical tools to use to make the hollow carving patterns and inlay silver wires on the back, so we can only do it by hand bit by bit." Zhang Junping said with a smile.
"Director Zhang is right, this electric tool works really fast now.
Our carpentry factory also has a lot of electric tools, but we old guys are not used to using them, so we still use these traditional tools." Zhao Jiazhu said with a smile.
"Traditional tools cannot be thrown away, and these new power tools must also be used. Tools were invented for human use.
Let's go, it's time for Master Zhao to eat. After dinner, he will continue to supervise their use of traditional tools."
Zhang Junping put away the processed fence panels, then smiled and invited Zhao Jiazhu to eat.
Old carpenters in the 1980s were still very open-minded and supported the emergence of power tools. Even if they were not used to or unable to use power tools due to their age, they would not reject them.
On the contrary, in later generations, some people clamored that traditional crafts should use traditional tools, otherwise they would abandon the tradition and cannot be regarded as traditional crafts.
Every time Zhang Junping hears such remarks, he just wants to say, screw it.
Traditional tools in the eyes of modern people have been gradually improved after thousands of years of development.
In the earliest days, there were no saws. It was the founder Lu Ban who invented the saw.
Also, there were no planes at the beginning, so carpenters only used adzes.
Later, after planes were introduced from abroad, carpenters gradually switched to using planes.
It can be seen that tools are constantly developing and improving.
Electric tools are a progress. Their emergence will not hinder the inheritance and development of traditional craftsmanship. On the contrary, it will greatly promote the development and inheritance of traditional craftsmanship.
Handicraft is not an art, nor is it a culture. It is the ability of craftsmen to make a living, and it is the rice bowl of craftsmen.
When a handicraft cannot support its craftsmen, the fate it faces is to be eliminated and abandoned.
If handicrafts want to avoid being eliminated or abandoned, they rely not on publicity and appeals, but on their own evolution, development, and transformation.
As for this, carpentry craftsmanship or wood craftsmen are very good at it. Since the beginning of the ancestor Lu Ban, it has been constantly evolving, developing and changing, and has supported countless people.
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"Lao Zhang, what do you want to eat for breakfast? I'll buy it!"
In the morning, Liu Zhengwen got up earlier than Zhang Junping. Zhang Junping had just gotten up and was about to wash up. Liu Zhengwen had already finished washing up and asked Zhang Junping what he had eaten for breakfast.
"Soy milk and fried dough sticks!" Zhang Junping said casually.
As soon as Huang Xue came out of the back room, she heard Zhang Junping shouting about eating soy milk and fried dough sticks. She immediately blushed and gave Zhang Junping a fierce look.
Then he turned to Liu Zhengwen and said, "Old Liu, please help me buy two bowls of noodles and tea, and some grilled forks!"
"Okay, two bowls of noodles and tea with grilled pork!" Liu Zhengwen agreed and ran out to buy breakfast.
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The reason why Liu Zhengwen is so active is because he took on another decoration job yesterday.
After finishing the last decoration job, he and several classmates received fifty yuan each. Including the design fee, they received a total of one hundred yuan.
This time I took another job, so I was naturally happy.
This is not just a matter 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.
Also, the tenderness that night after handing the money to my wife.
"My mind is full of..." Huang Xue turned around and saw Zhang Junping smiling strangely at her, and immediately kicked Zhang Junping angrily before turning around to wash up.